Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the European Solidarity Corps programme and repealing [European Solidarity Corps Regulation] and Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 - Presidency debriefing on the outcome of the trilogue - Main contents
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Council of the European Union
Brussels, 13 December 2019 (OR. en)
15100/19
Interinstitutional File: 2018/0230(COD) i
JEUN 147 EDUC 482 EMPL 609 SOC 803 SPORT 108 COHAFA 110 ECOFIN 1144 CADREFIN 420 CODEC 1780
NOTE
From: General Secretariat of the Council
To: Delegations
No. prev. doc.: 14773/1/19 REV1
Subject: Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND
OF THE COUNCIL
establishing the European Solidarity Corps programme and repealing [European Solidarity Corps Regulation] and Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i
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-Presidency debriefing on the outcome of the trilogue
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1.In view of the debriefing at Coreper on 18 December 2018 on the third informal Trilogue
about the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) Regulation held on 11 December 2019, delegations will
find attached an updated 4-column document that reflects the outcome of the Trilogue as well as the
latest positions of the European Parliament and of the Council 1 .
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2.The following lines, as set out in the 4th column of the attached 4-column table, were agreed
at the third Trilogue on 11 December 2019:
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a)General issues/Solidarity strand:
Lines 13, 26, 39, 78, 94, 99, 139, 145, 150, 245, 263-267
1 The latest Council mandate was established by Coreper on 4 December 2019.
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b)Humanitarian Aid strand:
Lines 10, 18, 19, 20, 32, 104, 137, 174, 175, 182, 184, 186, 190-195, 249, 324
With respect to the initial list of lines that were ready to be agreed at the third Trilogue, as set out in
doc. 14773/1/19 REV 1, the following new lines were agreed following discussions at that
Trilogue: lines 10, 137, 145, 184 and 324.
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3.The following lines, as set out in the 4th column of the attached 4-column table, were
discussed but not agreed at the third Trilogue on 11 December 2019, and therefore remain open for
further discussion:
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a)General issues/Solidarity strand:
• Lines 56, 163, 168, 169, 237-238 (inclusion)
• Lines 91, 136 (adequate funding)
• Lines 35, 145, 162, 241 (insurance and assistance)
• Lines 29, 98, 166 (definition of jobs/jobs substitution/written job contract)
• Line 274 (brand name of the programme) 2
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b)Humanitarian Aid strand:
Lines 9, 11, 16, 17, 55, 137, 176-181, 189, 199, 201
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4.The Permanent Representatives Committee is invited to take note of the attached document,
which reflects the state of play on this file following to the third and last Trilogue held under the
Finnish Presidency.
2 Upon request from the EP, line 274 was not discussed at the third Trilogue
ANNEX
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the European Solidarity Corps programme and repealing [European Solidarity Corps Regulation] and
Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i - Interinstitutional file: 2018/0230 (COD) i - Revised version reflecting the state of play following to the third Trilogue on 11 December 2019
EP amendments: changes to COM proposal are indicated in bold italics for additions. Deletions are not indicated.
Council PGA: changes to COM proposal are indicated in bold for additions and with […] for deletions.
When the original text was already in bold (titles), changes to COM proposal are indicated in underlined for additions.
Empty cells in EP amendments column and/or Council PGA column mean no EP and/or no Council amendment to the COM proposal
While compromise texts in the 4th column have not been formally agreed by EP and Council at this stage, they have emerged from technical discussions. The 4th column inicates when they have been 1) agreed by EP coordinators and Youth WP/Coreper; 2) provisionally agreed in technical discussions; 3) not discussed yet; or 4) discussed but not agreed (to be further discussed)
[Text in square brackets] in the 4th column means parts of the compromise proposal that are not acceptable for the EP or for the Council
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1 Proposal for a REGULATION
OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE
COUNCIL establishing the European Solidarity Corps programme and
repealing [European Solidarity Corps Regulation] and
Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i (Text with EEA relevance)
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2 THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,
3 Having regard to the Treaty on the
Functioning of the European
Union, and in particular Articles
165(4), 166(4) and 214(5) thereof,
4 Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
5 After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
6 Having regard to the opinion of the
European Economic and Social
Committee 16 ,
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16 OJ C […] , […] , p. […] .
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7 Having regard to the opinion of the
Committee of the Regions 17 ,
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17 OJ C […] , […] , p. […] .
8 Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure,
Whereas:
AMD 1 Compromise text 9 (1) The European Union is built on (1) The European Union is built (1) The European Union is acceptable to Council solidarity, among its citizens and on solidarity, among its citizens built on solidarity, among its (under scrutiny by the among its Member States. This and among its Member States. citizens and among its Member EP): common value guides its actions This common value, enshrined States. This universal and and provides the necessary unity to in Article 2 of the Treaty on the common value guides its (1) The European Union is cope with current and future European Union, guides its actions and provides the built on solidarity, among societal challenges, which young actions and provides the necessary unity to cope with its citizens and among its
Europeans are willing to help necessary unity to cope with current and future societal Member States. This address by expressing their current and future societal challenges, which young universal and common solidarity in practice. challenges, which young Europeans are willing to help value, enshrined in Article
Europeans are willing to help address by expressing their 2 of the Treaty on the address by expressing their solidarity in practice. European Union, guides solidarity in practice. its actions and provides the necessary unity to cope with current and future societal challenges, which young Europeans are
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willing to help address by expressing their solidarity in practice.
AMD 2 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 10 (1a) Given the significant 11.12.2019: increase in humanitarian crises and global emergencies, and (1a) Given the significant with a view to enhancing the increase in global promotion of solidarity and the humanitarian needs and visibility of humanitarian aid with a view to enhancing among Union citizens, there is the promotion of a need to develop solidarity solidarity and the visibility between Member States and of humanitarian aid with third countries affected by among Union citizens, man-made or natural disasters. there is a need to develop
solidarity between Member States and with third countries affected by man-made or natural disasters.
AMD 3 Linked to lines 10, 16, 18 11 (1b) Humanitarian aid is based and 176 on the principles of impartiality, Compromise proposal for neutrality and nonrecitals acceptable for discrimination, which are Council embedded in international EP can accept it except the humanitarian law and Union text in square brackets in law. Humanitarian aid provides recital (1b) and recital a needs-based emergency (1d), for which it has
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response aimed at preserving proposed an alternative life, preventing and alleviating text human suffering, maintaining human dignity and providing (1b) Humanitarian aid protection for vulnerable volunteering actions groups affected by man-made should contribute to a or natural disasters. Disaster needs-based risk reduction and preparedness humanitarian response through capacity and resilience and be guided by the building activities are also European Consensus on essential elements of Humanitarian Aid. humanitarian aid. [Relevant international law], in particular international humanitarian law and human rights law, should be promoted.
(1c) Where appropriate, the central and overall coordinating role of UN- OCHA in promoting a coherent international response to humanitarian crises should be taken into account.
[(1d) Humanitarian aid volunteering actions should contribute to an
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adequate humanitarian response strengthening the gender perspective in Union humanitarian aid and taking into account the needs and capacities of those in the most vulnerable situations, including women and children, and those most at risk due to, for example, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age or religion. 1 ]
(1e) Humanitarian aid volunteering actions should strive to contribute to enhanced effectiveness and efficiency of the EU humanitarian aid, in line with the Good Humanitarian Donorship principles.
1 Agreed language by Council, not acceptable to the EP as it stands. The EP proposes to shorten the last part of this text as follows: taking into account the needs and capacities of those in the most vulnerable situations and those most at risk, in particular women and children.
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12 (2) The State of the Union address of 14 September 2016 emphasised the need to invest in young people and announced the establishment of a European Solidarity Corps (the
‘Programme’) with a view to creating opportunities for young people across the Union to make a meaningful contribution to society, show solidarity and develop their skills, thus getting not only work but also invaluable human experience.
AMD 4 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 13 (3) In its Communication ‘A (3) In its Communication ‘A 11.12.2019:
European Solidarity Corps’ of European Solidarity Corps’ of 7
7 December 2016 18 , the December 2016 18 , the Council can accept EP
Commission emphasised the need Commission emphasised the AMD 4 to strengthen the foundations for need to strengthen the solidarity work across Europe, to foundations for solidarity work provide young people with more across Europe, to provide young and better opportunities for people with more and better solidarity activities covering a opportunities for solidarity broad range of areas, and to activities covering a broad range support national and local actors, in of areas, and to support national, their efforts to cope with different regional and local actors, in challenges and crises. The their efforts to cope with
Communication launched a first different challenges and crises.
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phase of the European Solidarity The Communication launched a
Corps whereby different Union first phase of the European programmes were mobilised to Solidarity Corps whereby offer volunteering, traineeship or different Union programmes job opportunities to young people were mobilised to offer across the Union. volunteering, traineeship or job
opportunities to young people _____________ across the Union.
18 Communication from the
Commission to the European __________
Parliament, the Council, the 18 Communication from the
European Economic and Social Commission to the European
Committee and the Committee of Parliament, the Council, the the Regions A European Solidarity European Economic and Social Corps (COM(2016) 942 final i). Committee and the Committee
of the Regions A European Solidarity Corps (COM(2016)0942 final i). 14
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(4)Article 2 of the Treaty of the
European Union highlights solidarity as one of the principles key to the European Union. That principle is also referred to in
Article 21(1) of the Treaty of the
European Union as one of the foundations of the EU’s external action.
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(4a) Within the context of this Regulation, solidarity is understood as a sense of responsibility on the part of everyone with regard to everyone to commit oneself to the common good, which is expressed through concrete actions without consideration of return service.
AMD 6 EP sticks to AMD 6 16 (4b) Providing assistance to people and communities outside Council cannot accept the Union which are confronted AMD 6 with disasters or which are particularly vulnerable to disasters and in need of humanitarian aid, based on the fundamental principles of neutrality, humanity, independence and impartiality, is an important expression of solidarity.
AMD 7 Linked to lines 176 and 17 (4c) Participating volunteers 178 and organisations implementing actions under the Covered by compromise
European Voluntary proposal in line 11 Humanitarian Aid Corps
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should abide by the principles EP ready to drop AMD 7 set out in the European Consensus on Humanitarian Aid.
AMD 8 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 18 (4d) There is a need to further 11.12.2019: develop solidarity with victims of crises and disasters in third Council can accept EP countries and to raise both AMD 8 awareness levels and the visibility of humanitarian aid and volunteering in general as a lifelong activity among Union citizens.
AMD 9 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 19 (4e) The Union and the 11.12.2019:
Member States have committed to implement the United Council can accept EP Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for AMD 9 Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals thereof, both internally and through external actions. AMD 10 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 20 (4f) In its conclusions of 19 11.12.2019: May 2017 on operationalising the humanitarian-development Council can accept AMD nexus, the Council recognised 10
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the need to strengthen resilience by better linking humanitarian assistance and development cooperation and to further strengthen the operational links between the complementary approaches of humanitarian assistance, development cooperation and conflict prevention.
AMD 11 21 (5) Young people should be (5) Young people should be provided with easily accessible provided with easily accessible, opportunities to engage in inclusive and meaningful solidarity activities, which could opportunities to engage in enable them to express their solidarity activities, which could commitment to the benefit of enable them to express their communities while acquiring commitment to the benefit of useful experience, skills and communities while acquiring competences for their personal, useful experience, knowledge, educational, social, civic and skills and competences for their professional development, thereby personal, educational, social, improving their employability. civic and professional
Those activities should also development, thereby improving support the mobility of young their employability. Those volunteers, trainees and workers. activities should also support the
mobility of young volunteers, trainees and workers and a multicultural exchange.
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AMD 12 22 (6) The solidarity activities offered (6) The solidarity activities (6) The solidarity activities to young people should be of high offered to young people should offered to young people should quality, in the sense that they be of high quality; they should allow for concrete and should respond to unmet societal aim to tackle unmet societal beneficial contributions of needs, contribute to strengthening needs, enhance solidarity and young people and be of high communities, offer young people contribute to strengthening quality, in the sense that they the opportunity to acquire valuable communities and democratic should respond to unmet knowledge and competences, be participation. They should offer societal needs, contribute to financially accessible to young young people the opportunity to strengthening communities, people, and be implemented in safe acquire valuable knowledge, offer young people the and healthy conditions. skills and competences. They opportunity to acquire valuable
should be financially accessible knowledge and competences, to young people and be be financially accessible to implemented in safe, inclusive young people, and be and healthy conditions. implemented in safe and Dialogue with local and healthy conditions. regional authorities and European networks specialised in urgent social problems should be encouraged in order to best determine unmet societal needs and ensure a needsoriented programme. Solidarity activities should not have a negative impact on existing jobs or traineeships and should contribute to reinforcing the corporate social responsibility
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commitments of companies, while not replacing them.
AMD 13 Compromise text (not 23 (7) The European Solidarity Corps (7) The European Solidarity (7) The European Solidarity discussed yet): provides a single entry point for Corps provides a single entry Corps provides a single entry (7) The European solidarity activities throughout the point for solidarity activities point for solidarity activities Solidarity Corps provides
Union and beyond. Consistency throughout the Union and throughout the Union and a single entry point for and complementarity should be beyond. Consistency and beyond. Consistency and solidarity activities ensured with other relevant Union complementarity should be complementarity should be throughout the Union and policies and programmes. The ensured with other relevant ensured with other relevant beyond. In order to
European Solidarity Corps is built Union policies and programmes. Union policies, such as the EU maximise the on the strengths and synergies of The European Solidarity Corps Youth Strategy, and effectiveness of Union predecessor and existing is built on the strengths and programmes, especially funding and the impact of programmes, notably the European synergies of predecessor and Erasmus+ and successor the Programme, the
Voluntary Service 19 and the EU existing programmes, notably programmes. The European Commission should seek
Aid Volunteers 20 . It also the European Voluntary Solidarity Corps is built on the to establish synergies complements the efforts made by Service 19 and the EU Aid strengths and synergies of across all relevant
Member States to support young Volunteers 20 . It also predecessor and existing programmes in a coherent
people and ease their school-tocomplements the efforts made programmes, notably the manner, without such
work transition under the Youth by Member States to support European Voluntary Service 19 synergies leading to funds
Guarantee by providing them with young people and ease their and the European Voluntary being used to pursue additional opportunities to make a school-to-work transition under Humanitarian Aid Corps objectives other than start on the labour market in the schemes such as the Youth (‘EU Aid Volunteers those set out in this form of traineeships or jobs in Guarantee by providing them initiative’) 20 . It should set up Regulation. Consistency solidarity-related areas within their with additional opportunities to two strands of actions in and complementarity respective Member State or across make a start on the labour order to allow participation should be ensured with borders. Complementarity with market in the form of of young people in solidarity other relevant Union existing Union level networks traineeships or jobs in solidarityactivities addressing societal policies, such as the EU pertinent to the activities under the related areas within their challenges and participation Youth Strategy, and
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European Solidarity Corps, such as respective Member State or of young people in programmes, especially the European Network of Public across borders. Complementarity humanitarian aid related Erasmus+ and successor
Employment Services, EURES and with existing Union level solidarity activities programmes. The the Eurodesk network, are also networks pertinent to the (European Voluntary European Solidarity Corps ensured. Furthermore, activities under the European Humanitarian Aid Corps). is built on the strengths complementarity between existing Solidarity Corps, such as the The European Solidarity and synergies of related schemes, in particular European Network of Public Corps also complements the predecessor and existing national solidarity schemes and Employment Services, EURES efforts made by Member States programmes, notably the mobility schemes for young and the Eurodesk network and to support young people and European Voluntary
people, and the European relevant civil society ease their school-to-work Service 19 and the EU Aid
Solidarity Corps should be ensured, organisations, including social transition under the Youth Volunteers 20 . It also building on good practices where partners and networks Guarantee by providing them complements the efforts appropriate. representing young people and with additional opportunities to made by Member States to
volunteers, is also ensured. make a start on the labour support young people and _______________ Furthermore, complementarity market in the form of ease their school-to-work
between existing related traineeships or jobs in transition under schemes
19 Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 i schemes, in particular national solidarity-related areas within such as the Youth
of the European Parliament and of solidarity schemes, such as their respective Member State Guarantee by providing the Council of 11 December 2013 volunteering, civil service and or across borders. them with additional establishing 'Erasmus+': the Union mobility schemes for young Complementarity with existing opportunities to make a programme for education, training, people, and the European Union level networks pertinent start on the labour market youth and sport and repealing Solidarity Corps should be to the activities under the in the form of traineeships Decisions No 1719/2006/EC, No ensured, building on good European Solidarity Corps, or jobs in solidarity-related 1720/2006/EC and No practices where appropriate, to such as the European Network areas within their
1298/2008/EC (OJ L 347, mutually enhance and enrich of Public Employment respective Member State
20.12.2013, p. 50–73). the impact and qualities of such Services, EURES and the or across borders.
20 Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i of schemes and build upon good Eurodesk network, are also Complementarity with
the European Parliament and of the practices. The European ensured. Furthermore, existing Union level
Council of 3 April 2014 Solidarity Corps should not complementarity between networks pertinent to the establishing the European substitute national schemes. existing related schemes, in activities under the
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Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps Access for all young people to particular national solidarity European Solidarity Corps,
(‘EU Aid Volunteers initiative’) national solidarity activities schemes and mobility schemes such as the European
(OJ L 122, 24.4.2014, p. 1-17). should be ensured. The for young people, and the Network of Public
Commission should develop European Solidarity Corps Employment Services, practical guidelines on the should be ensured, building on EURES and the Eurodesk complementarity of the good practices where network, are also ensured. Programme with other Union appropriate. Furthermore, programmes and sources of complementarity between funding and on synergies ______________ existing related schemes, between them. 19 Regulation (EU) No in particular national
1288/2013 of the European solidarity schemes, such ________________ Parliament and of the Council as volunteering, civic
19 Regulation (EU) No of 11 December 2013 service and mobility
1288/2013 of the European establishing 'Erasmus+': the schemes for young people, Parliament and of the Council of Union programme for and the European 11 December 2013 establishing education, training, youth and Solidarity Corps should be 'Erasmus+': the Union sport and repealing Decisions ensured, building on good programme for education, No 1719/2006/EC, No practices where training, youth and sport and 1720/2006/EC and No appropriate, to mutually repealing Decisions No 1298/2008/EC (OJ L 347, enhance and enrich the 1719/2006/EC, No 20.12.2013, p. 50–73). impact and qualities of
1720/2006/EC and No 20 Regulation (EU) No such schemes and build
1298/2008/EC (OJ L 347, 375/2014 of the European upon good practices. The 20.12.2013, p. 50–73). Parliament and of the Council European Solidarity
20 Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i of 3 April 2014 establishing Corps should not of the European Parliament and the European Voluntary substitute similar national of the Council of 3 April 2014 Humanitarian Aid Corps (‘EU schemes. [Equal access establishing the European Aid Volunteers initiative’) (OJ for all young people to Voluntary Humanitarian Aid L 122, 24.4.2014, p. 1-17). national solidarity Corps (‘EU Aid Volunteers activities should be
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initiative’) (OJ L 122, ensured.] 24.4.2014, p. 1-17). __________________ 19 Regulation (EU) No
1288/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 establishing 'Erasmus+': the Union programme for education, training, youth and sport and repealing Decisions No 1719/2006/EC, No 1720/2006/EC and No 1298/2008/EC (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 50–73). 20 Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 April 2014 establishing the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps (‘EU Aid Volunteers initiative’) (OJ L 122, 24.4.2014, p. 1-17).
24 (8) With respect to the interpretation of related legislation at Union level, both the crossborder volunteering activities under
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the European Solidarity Corps and the volunteering activities that continue to be supported under
Regulation (EU) No 1288/2013 i should be considered equivalent to those carried out under the
European Voluntary Service.
AMD 14 25 (8a) The certification of sending and hosting organisations, carried out in accordance with Regulation
(EU) No 375/2014, should not be duplicated under the Programme and equivalence should be recognised when implementing this Regulation from 2021 onwards.
AMD 15 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 26 (9) The European Solidarity Corps (9) The European Solidarity 11.12.2019: opens up new opportunities for Corps opens up new non-formal young people to carry out and informal learning (9) The European volunteering, traineeship or job opportunities for young people Solidarity Corps opens up activities in solidarity-related areas to carry out volunteering, new opportunities for as well as to devise and develop traineeship or job activities in young people to carry out solidarity projects based on their solidarity-related areas as well as volunteering, traineeship own initiative. These opportunities to devise and develop solidarity or job activities in contribute to enhancing their projects based on their own solidarity-related areas as
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personal, educational, social, civic initiative. These opportunities well as to devise and and professional development. The contribute to enhancing their develop solidarity projects
European Solidarity Corps also personal, educational, social, based on their own supports networking activities for civic and professional initiative. These
European Solidarity Corps development. The European opportunities contribute to participants and organisations as Solidarity Corps also supports enhancing their personal, well as measures to ensure the networking activities for educational, social, civic quality of the supported activities European Solidarity Corps and professional and to enhance the validation of participants and organisations as development. The their learning outcomes. It will thus well as measures to ensure the European Solidarity Corps also contribute to European quality of the supported also supports networking cooperation relevant to young activities and to enhance the activities for European people and raising awareness of its validation of their learning Solidarity Corps positive impact. outcomes. It will thus also participants and
contribute to European organisations as well as cooperation relevant to young measures to ensure the people and raising awareness of quality of the supported its positive impact. It should activities and to enhance also contribute to strengthening the validation of their communities and supporting learning outcomes. It will existing organisations that thus also contribute to implement solidarity actions. European cooperation relevant to young people and raising awareness of its positive impact. It is appropriate that activities offered follow a clear and detailed procedure addressed to participants and participating
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organisations, establishing the steps of all phases of the solidarity activities.
AMD 16 27 (10) These activities should be to (10) These activities should have (10) These activities should be the benefit of communities while a clear European added value to the benefit of communities also fostering the individual’s and be to the benefit of while also fostering the personal, educational, social, civic communities while also individual’s personal, and professional development, fostering the individual’s educational, social, civic and which may take the form of personal, educational, social, professional development, volunteering, traineeships and jobs, civic and professional which may take the form of projects or networking activities, development. It should be volunteering, traineeships and developed in relation to different possible for those activities to jobs, projects or networking areas, such as education and take the form of volunteering, activities, developed in relation training, employment, gender traineeships and jobs, projects or to different areas, such as equality, entrepreneurship – in networking activities, developed education and training, youth particular social entrepreneurship – in relation to different areas, work, employment, gender
, citizenship and democratic such as education and training, equality, entrepreneurship – in participation, environment and employment, gender equality, particular social nature protection, climate action, entrepreneurship – in particular entrepreneurship –,citizenship disaster prevention, preparedness social entrepreneurship –, and democratic participation, and recovery, agriculture and rural citizenship and democratic environment and nature development, provision of food and participation, intercultural and protection, climate action, non-food items, health and interreligious dialogue, social disaster prevention, wellbeing, creativity and culture, inclusion, inclusion of people preparedness and recovery, physical education and sport, social with disabilities, environment agriculture and rural assistance and welfare, reception and nature protection, climate development, provision of food and integration of third-country action, disaster prevention, and non-food items, health and
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nationals, territorial cooperation preparedness and recovery, wellbeing, creativity and and cohesion, and cooperation agriculture and rural culture, physical education and across borders. Such solidarity development, provision of food sport, social assistance and activities should include a solid and non-food items, health and welfare, reception and learning and training dimension wellbeing, culture, including integration of third-country through relevant activities that can cultural heritage, creativity, nationals, territorial be offered to participants before, physical education and sport, cooperation and cohesion, and during and after the solidarity social assistance and welfare, cooperation across borders. activity. reception and integration of Such solidarity activities
third-country nationals, with a should include a solid learning focus on overcoming the and training dimension through challenges faced by migrants, relevant activities that are territorial cooperation and offered to participants before, cohesion, and cooperation across during and after the solidarity borders. Such solidarity activity. activities should include a solid learning and training dimension through relevant activities that can be offered to participants before, during and after the solidarity activity.
AMD 17 28 (11) Volunteering activities (both (11) Volunteering activities within and beyond the Union) (both within and beyond the constitute a rich experience in a Union) constitute a rich non-formal and informal learning experience in a non-formal and context which enhances young informal learning context which people’s personal, socioenhances young people’s educational and professional personal, socio-educational and
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development, active citizenship professional development, active and employability. Volunteering citizenship, democratic activities should not have an participation and employability. adverse effect on potential or Volunteering should be based existing paid employment, nor on a written volunteering should they be seen as a substitute agreement and volunteering for it. The Commission and the activities should not have an
Member States should cooperate adverse effect on potential or regarding volunteering policies in existing paid employment, nor the youth field via the open method should they be seen as a of coordination. substitute for it. The
Commission and the Member States should cooperate regarding volunteering policies in the youth field via the open method of coordination.
AMD 18 Compromise proposal 29 (12) Traineeships and jobs in (12) Easily accessible (12) Traineeships and jobs in acceptable for Council: solidarity-related areas can offer traineeships and jobs solidarity-related areas can additional opportunities for young Traineeships should never lead offer additional opportunities (12) Traineeships and jobs people to make a start on the labour to job substitution. Paid for young people to make a in solidarity-related areas market while contributing to traineeships and jobs, however, start on the labour market can offer additional addressing key societal challenges. can represent an incentive for while contributing to opportunities for young
This can help foster the disadvantaged young people addressing key societal people to make a start on employability and productivity of and young people with fewer challenges. This can help the labour market while young people while easing their opportunities to participate in foster the employability and contributing to addressing transition from education to solidarity-related activities that productivity of young people key societal challenges. employment, which is key to they might not otherwise be while easing their transition This can help foster the enhancing their chances on the able to access while giving a from education to employability and
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labour market. The traineeship clear European added value in employment, which is key to productivity of young activities offered under the contributing to addressing key enhancing their chances on people while easing their
European Solidarity Corps follow unmet social challenges and to and facilitating their transition from education the quality principles outlined in strengthening local sustainable integration into to employment, which is
Council Recommendation on communities. Traineeships can the labour market. The key to enhancing their establishing a Quality Framework ease the transition of young traineeship activities offered chances on and
for Traineeships 21 . The traineeships people from education to under the European Solidarity facilitating their
and jobs offered constitute a employment and can help foster Corps follow the quality sustainable integration stepping stone for young people to the employability of young principles outlined in Council into the labour market. enter the labour market and are people, which is key to Recommendation on The traineeship activities accompanied by adequate postachieving their sustainable establishing a Quality offered under the activity support. The traineeship integration into the labour Framework for Traineeships 21 . European Solidarity Corps and job activities are facilitated by market. The traineeships and The traineeships and jobs follow the quality relevant labour market actors, in jobs offered constitute a stepping offered constitute a stepping principles outlined in particular public and private stone for young people to enter stone for young people to enter Council Recommendation employment services, social the labour market. Traineeships the labour market and are on establishing a Quality partners and Chambers of and jobs offered under the accompanied by adequate Framework for
Commerce, and are remunerated by European Solidarity Corps post-activity support. The Traineeships 21 . The the participating organisation. As should always be paid by the traineeship and job activities traineeships and jobs participating organisations, they participating organisation are facilitated by relevant offered constitute a should apply for funding via the hosting or employing the labour market actors, in stepping stone for young competent implementing body of participant. Traineeships particular public and private people to enter the labour the European Solidarity Corps in should be based on a written employment services, social market without view of intermediating between the traineeship agreement in partners and Chambers of substituting existing jobs young participants and employers accordance with the applicable Commerce, and are and are accompanied by offering traineeship and job law of the country where the remunerated by the adequate post-activity activities in solidarity sectors. traineeship takes place, as participating organisation. As support. The traineeship
appropriate, and should follow participating organisations, and job activities are the principles outlined in the they should apply for funding facilitated by relevant
________________ Council Recommendation of 10 via the competent labour market actors, in
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March 2018 on a European Framework for Traineeships 21 . European Solidarity Corps in private employment
Framework for Quality and Jobs should be based on an view of intermediating services, social partners
Effective Apprenticeships (OJ C employment contract in between the young participants and Chambers of
153, 2.5.2018, p. 1). accordance with the national and employers offering Commerce, and are law or applicable collective traineeship and job activities in remunerated by the agreements, or both, of the solidarity sectors. participating organisation. participating country where the As participating
job is being carried out. ________________ organisations, they should Financial support to 21 Council Recommendation of apply for funding via the
participating organisations 15 March 2018 on a European competent implementing offering jobs should not exceed Framework for Quality and body of the European twelve months. The Effective Apprenticeships (OJ Solidarity Corps in view participating organisations C 153, 2.5.2018, p. 1). of intermediating between should apply for funding via the the young participants and competent implementing body employers offering of the European Solidarity traineeship and job Corps in view of intermediating activities in solidarity between the young participants sectors. and employers offering traineeship and job activities in ________________ solidarity sectors. Traineeships 21 Council and jobs should be accompanied Recommendation of 15 by adequate preparation, on March 2018 on a European the-job training and post Framework for Quality placement support in relation to and Effective the participation of the Apprenticeships (OJ C participant. Traineeships and 153, 2.5.2018, p. 1). jobs could be facilitated by relevant labour market actors, in Alternative EP
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particular public and private compromise proposal employment services, social (10.12.2019): partners and Chambers of Commerce, as well as the 12) Traineeships and jobs member organisations of in solidarity-related areas EURES, in accordance with should be clearly Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of separated from the European Parliament and volunteering, both from a of the Council 21a in the case of financial and an cross-border activities. organisational point of view and should offer ____________ additional opportunities
21 Council Recommendation of for young people,
10 March 2014 on a Quality including young people Framework for Traineeships with fewer opportunities (OJ C 88, 27.3.2014, p. 1). to make a start on the 21a Regulation (EU) No labour market while 2016/589 of the European contributing to addressing Parliament and of the Council key societal challenges via of 13 April 2016 on a European solidarity-related network of employment services activities. Traineeships (EURES), workers' access to can ease the transition of mobility services and the young people from further integration of labour education to employment markets, and amending and enhance their Regulations (EU) No 492/2011 i employability, which is and (EU) No 1296/2013 (OJ L key to achieving their 107, 22.4.2016, p. 1). sustainable integration into the labour market. The traineeship activities
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offered under the European Solidarity Corps follow the quality principles outlined in Council Recommendation on establishing a Quality Framework for
Traineeships 21 . The
traineeships and jobs offered constitute a stepping stone for young people to enter the labour market without substituting existing jobs and are accompanied by adequate post-activity support. The traineeship and job activities are remunerated by the participating organisation and are facilitated by relevant labour market actors, in particular public and private employment services, social partners and Chambers of Commerce, as well as the member organisations of EURES, in accordance with Regulation (EU)
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2016/589 of the European Parliament and of the Council 21a in the case of cross-border. Participating organisations, they should apply for funding via the competent implementing body of the European Solidarity Corps in view of intermediating between the young participants and employers offering traineeship and job activities in solidarity sectors.
AM 19 30 (12a) Efforts should be made to ensure that traineeships and jobs are open to the participation of all young people, in particular to young people with fewer opportunities, including young people with disabilities, social or cultural disadvantages, migrants and residents in isolated rural areas and the outermost regions of the Union.
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AMD 20 31 (13) Young people’s spirit of (13) Young people’s spirit of (13) Young people’s spirit of initiative is an important asset for initiative is an important asset initiative is an important asset society and for the labour market. for society and for the labour for society and for the labour
The European Solidarity Corps market. The European Solidarity market. The European contributes to fostering this aspect Corps contributes to fostering Solidarity Corps contributes to by offering young people the this aspect by offering young fostering this aspect by opportunity to devise and people the opportunity to devise offering young people the implement their own projects and implement their own opportunity to devise and aimed at addressing specific projects aimed at addressing implement their own projects challenges to the benefit of their specific challenges to the benefit aimed at addressing specific local communities. These projects of their local communities. challenges to the benefit of are an opportunity to try out ideas These projects are an their local or host and support young people to be opportunity to try out ideas to communities. These projects themselves drivers of solidarity develop innovative solutions to are an opportunity to try out actions. They also serve as a common challenges through a ideas and support young people springboard for further engagement bottom-up approach and to be themselves drivers of in solidarity activities and are a support young people to be solidarity actions. They also first step towards encouraging themselves drivers of solidarity serve as a springboard for
European Solidarity Corps actions. They also serve as a further engagement in participants to engage in selfspringboard for further solidarity activities and are a employment or setting up engagement in solidarity first step towards encouraging associations, non-governmental activities and are a first step European Solidarity Corps organisations or other bodies active towards encouraging European participants to engage in selfin the solidarity, non-profit and Solidarity Corps participants to employment or setting up youth sectors. engage in self-employment and associations, non-governmental
continue to be active citizens organisations or other bodies either as volunteers, trainees or active in the solidarity, nonas employees in associations, profit and youth sectors. non-governmental organisations
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or other bodies active in the solidarity, non-profit and youth sectors. The European Solidarity Corps should essentially create an atmosphere in which young people are increasingly motivated to engage in solidarity activities and serve the public interest.
AMD 21 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 32 (13a) Volunteers can contribute 11.12.2019: to strengthening the Union's capacity to provide needs-based Council can accept AMD and principled humanitarian 21 aid and can contribute to enhancing the effectiveness of the humanitarian sector where they are adequately selected, trained and prepared for deployment so as to ensure that they have the necessary skills and competences to help people in need in the most effective way, and provided that they can count on sufficient on-site support and supervision.
Therefore, highly skilled, highly trained and experienced
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coaches or mentors on the ground play an important role in contributing to the effectiveness of the humanitarian response as well as towards supporting volunteers.
AMD 22 33 (14) Young people and (14) Young people and organisations participating in the organisations participating in the
European Solidarity Corps should European Solidarity Corps feel that they belong to a should feel that they belong to a community of individuals and community of individuals and entities committed to enhancing entities committed to enhancing solidarity across Europe. At the solidarity across Europe. At the same time, participating same time, participating organisations need support to organisations need support to strengthen their capacities to offer strengthen their capacities to good quality activities to an offer good quality activities to increasing number of participants. an increasing number of
The European Solidarity Corps participants. The European supports networking activities Solidarity Corps supports aimed at strengthening young networking activities aimed at people and participating strengthening young people and organisations’ engagement in this participating organisations’ community, at fostering a engagement in this community,
European Solidarity Corps spirit, as at fostering a European well as at encouraging the Solidarity Corps spirit, as well exchange of useful practices and as at encouraging the exchange
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experience. These activities also of best practices and experience. contribute to raising awareness These activities also contribute about the European Solidarity to raising awareness about the
Corps among public and private European Solidarity Corps actors as well as to collect among public and private actors feedback from participants and as well as to collect detailed and participating organisations on the meaningful feedback from implementation of the European participants and participating
Solidarity Corps. organisations on various stages of the implementation of the
European Solidarity Corps. Feedback should include questions regarding the Programme´s objectives in order to better evaluate their fulfilment.
AMD 23 34 (14a) Ensuring successful implementation of the
Programme requires increased visibility and awareness and further promoting the funding opportunities available through information campaigns, including an annual European Solidarity Corps Information Day, and dynamic means of communication, with a strong focus on social media, ensuring
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the largest possible awareness among the target groups, both individuals and organisations.
AMD 24 Linked to line 142. 35 (15) Particular attention should be (15) Particular attention should (15) Particular attention should given to ensuring the quality of the be given to ensuring the quality be given to ensuring the quality Compromise text activities and other opportunities of, and the aim of inclusiveness and accessibility of the acceptable for Council. If offered under the European to be achieved through, the activities and other accepted, it would enable
Solidarity Corps, in particular by activities and the opportunities opportunities offered under the EP to drop its AMDs for offering training, language support, offered under the European European Solidarity Corps, in lines and 236 and 323) insurance, administrative and post Solidarity Corps, in particular by particular by offering training, activity support to participants as offering adequate online or language support, EP insists on inserting the well as the validation of the offline training, language complementary insurance […] text in square brackets knowledge, skills and competences support, reasonable and administrative support to (text proposal received on acquired through their European accommodation, insurance, participants before, during 9.12.2019)
Solidarity Corps experience. simplified administrative and after the activity. The
Security and safety of the procedures and pre- and postvalidation of the knowledge, (15) Particular attention volunteers remain of paramount activity support to participants as skills and competences should be given to importance and volunteers should well as the validation of the acquired through their ensuring the quality of the not be deployed to operations knowledge, skills and European Solidarity Corps activities and opportunities conducted in the theatre of competences acquired through experience should be ensured, offered under the international and non-international their European Solidarity Corps e.g., by the further use of European Solidarity Corps, armed conflicts. experience. Support measures Youthpass. Security and safety in particular by offering
should be developed and of the volunteers remain of online or offline training, provided in collaboration with paramount importance and language support, youth organisations and other volunteers should not be insurance and non-profit and civil society deployed to operations administrative support to organisations in order to tap conducted in the theatre of participants before, into their expertise in the field. international and nonduring and after the
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Security and safety of the international armed conflicts. activity, as well as participants as well as of the insurance, including intended beneficiaries remain of coverage for accident, paramount importance. All sickness and third party activities should comply with liability. The validation of the ‘do no harm principle’. the knowledge, skills and Participants should not be competences acquired deployed to operations through their European conducted in the theatre of Solidarity Corps international and nonexperience should be international armed conflicts, or ensured. Support to facilities that contravene measures should be international human rights developed and provided in standards. Activities involving collaboration with youth direct contact with children organisations and other should be guided by the ‘best non-profit and civil interests of the child’ principle society organisations in and should entail, where order to tap into their appropriate, the carrying out of expertise in the field. background checks on Security and safety of the participants or the adoption of participants as well as of other measures with a view to the intended beneficiaries ensuring the protection of remain of paramount children. importance. [This should include, amongst other measures, targeted training of participants who undertake their solidarity activities for the benefit of vulnerable
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groups, including children, and, when needed, legally required statutory checks in order to get clearance for participants to work with these groups]. All activities should comply with the ‘do no harm principle’. Participants should not be deployed to operations conducted in the theatre of international and non-international armed conflicts, or to facilities that contravene international human rights standards.
AMD 25 36 (15a) In line with the EU
Guidelines for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child (2017) and Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Union and the Member States are to promote
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and support the transition from institutionalisation of vulnerable people, such as persons with disabilities and children, to family and community-based care. In that context, the Programme should not support measures or initiatives that hamper the commitment to end institutionalisation or any placement that would be harmful to children or persons with disabilities.
AMD 26 37 (15b) The Union’s principles of equal opportunities and nondiscrimination should be fully respected at all stages of the implementation of the
Programme, including the identification and selection of participants and organisations.
AMD 27 38 (16) To ensure the impact of (16)To ensure the impact of
European Solidarity Corps European Solidarity Corps activities on the personal, activities on the personal, educational, social, civic and educational, social, cultural,
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professional development of the civic and professional participants, the knowledge, skills development of the participants, and competences that are the the knowledge, skills and learning outcomes of the activity competences that are the should be properly identified and learning outcomes of the activity documented, in accordance with should be properly identified and national circumstances and documented, in accordance with specificities, as recommended in national circumstances and
Council Recommendation of 20 specificities, as recommended in
December 2012 on the validation Council Recommendation of 20 of non-formal and informal December 2012 on the learning 22 . validation of non-formal and
informal learning 22 . To ensure
that registered candidates are ____________ offered appropriate solidarity 22 Council Recommendation of 20 activities, the learning
December 2012 on the validation outcomes of solidarity activities of non-formal and informal should be made available to learning (OJ C 398, 22.12.2012, p. them before they choose to
1–5). participate. To that end, the use of effective instruments at
Union and national level for the recognition of non-formal and informal learning, such as Youthpass and Europass, should be encouraged, as appropriate.
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20 December 2012 on the validation of non-formal and informal learning (OJ C 398, 22.12.2012, p. 1–5).
AMD 28 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 39 (16a) National agencies should 11.12.2019: also encourage young volunteers to become (16a) The European ambassadors of the Programme Commission and national in order to share their agencies should also experiences through youth encourage former networks, educational participants to share their establishments and workshops. experiences through
Former volunteers or youth networks, ambassadors could also educational contribute to the training of establishments and future candidates. workshops, in roles such as ambassadors or as members of a network, amongst others. These former participants could also contribute to the training of participants.
AMD 29 40 (17) A quality label should ensure (17) A quality label should compliance of the participating ensure compliance of the organisations with the principles participating organisations with and requirements of the European the values, principles and
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Solidarity Corps, as regards their objectives of the Union as well rights and responsibilities during as with the principles and all stages of the solidarity requirements of the European experience. Obtaining a quality Solidarity Corps, as regards their label is a precondition for rights and responsibilities, and participation but should not safety standards, during all automatically lead to funding under stages of the solidarity the European Solidarity Corps. experience, including the preactivity
and post-activity phases. Obtaining a quality label is a precondition for participation but should not automatically lead to funding under the European Solidarity Corps. Quality labels should be differentiated by type of solidarity activity.
AMD 30 41 (18) Any entity willing to (18) Any entity willing to participate in the European participate in the European
Solidarity Corps should receive a Solidarity Corps should receive quality label provided that the a quality label provided that the appropriate conditions are fulfilled. appropriate conditions are
The process that leads to the fulfilled. To ensure the effective attribution of a quality label should compliance of participating be carried out on a continuous organisations with the basis by the implementing bodies principles and requirements of of the European Solidarity Corps. the European Solidarity Corps
The attributed quality label should as regards their rights and
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be reassessed periodically and responsibilities, separate quality could be revoked if, in the context labels should be put in place for of the checks to be performed, the volunteering in solidarity conditions that led to its attribution activities, volunteering in were found to be no longer support of humanitarian aid fulfilled. operations, and for traineeships
and jobs, and should also vary depending on the function of the participating organisation. The process that leads to the attribution of a quality label should be carried out on a continuous basis by the implementing bodies of the European Solidarity Corps. The attributed quality label should be reassessed regularly and should be revoked if, in the context of the checks to be performed, the conditions that led to its attribution were found to be no longer fulfilled. The administrative process should be reduced to a minimum in order to avoid discouraging smaller organisations.
42 (19) An entity willing to apply for funding to offer activities under the
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European Solidarity Corps should have first received a quality label as a precondition. This requirement does not apply to natural persons seeking financial support on behalf of an informal group of European
Solidarity Corps participants for their solidarity projects.
AMD 31 Linked to line 251 43 (19a) As a general rule, grant requests should be submitted to the national agency of the country in which the participating organisation is based. Grant requests for solidarity activities organised by
Europe-wide or international organisations, solidarity activities of volunteering teams in priority fields identified at the European level, and solidarity activities in support of humanitarian aid operations in third countries should be submitted to the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) established by Commission Implementing Decision
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2013/776/EU 1a .
_______________ 1a Commission Implementing Decision 2013/776 i/EU of 18 December 2013 establishing the ‘Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency’ and repealing Decision 2009/336/EC (OJ L 343, 19.12.2013, p. 46).
AMD 32 Linked to lines 100 and 44 (20) Participating organisations (20) Participating organisations 247 may perform several functions in may perform several functions in the framework of the European the framework of the European Compromise proposal (not
Solidarity Corps. In a host function Solidarity Corps. In a host discussed yet): they will carry out activities related function they will carry out to receiving the participants, activities related to receiving the (20) Participating including the organisation of participants, including the organisations may perform activities and providing guidance organisation of activities and several functions in the and support to participants during providing guidance and support framework of the the solidarity activity, as to participants during the European Solidarity Corps. appropriate. In a support function solidarity activity as well as In a host function they will they will carry out activities in feedback after the activity, as carry out activities related relation to the sending and the appropriate. In a support to receiving the preparation of participants before function they will carry out participants, including the departure, during and after the activities in relation to the organisation of activities solidarity activity, including sending and the preparation of and providing guidance training and guiding participants to participants before departure, and support to participants
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local organisations after the during and after the solidarity during the solidarity activity. activity, including training and activity, as appropriate. In
guiding participants to local a support function they organisations after the activity in will carry out activities in order to increase opportunities relation to the sending and for further solidarity the preparation of experiences. National agencies participants before should also encourage departure, during and after volunteers to become the solidarity activity, ambassadors for the including training and Programme and share personal guiding participants to experiences through youth local organisations after networks and educational the activity in order to establishments, thus increase opportunities for contributing to the promotion further solidarity of the Programme. To that end, experiences. The quality national agencies should label reflects these provide volunteers with support. varying specific requirements depending on the type of solidarity activity provided and certifies that the organisation is able to ensure the quality of solidarity activities, during all stages of the solidarity experience, in accordance with the principles and objectives of the Programme. Any
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entity which substantially changes its activities shall inform the competent implementing body for reassessment.
AMD 33 EP ready to drop AMD 45 (20a) In order to support 118 (line 240) provided solidarity activities among that its main elements be young people, participating kept in this Recital. organisations should be public or private entities or international organisations, non-profit or profit making, and may include youth organisations, religious institutions and charity associations, secular humanistic organisations,
NGOs or other actors from civil society. The Programme should only provide funding to cover the non-profit part of the activities of participating organisations.
AMD 34 46 (21) The scaling-up of European (21) The scaling-up of European
Solidarity Corps projects should be Solidarity Corps projects should facilitated. Specific measures be facilitated. At the same time,
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should be put in place to help accurate and continually promoters of European Solidarity updated information regarding
Corps projects to apply for grants those opportunities should be or develop synergies through the provided for potential support of the European Structural beneficiaries. Specific measures and Investment Funds and the should be put in place to help programmes relating to migration, promoters of European security, justice and citizenship, Solidarity Corps projects to health and culture. apply for grants or develop
synergies through the support of the European Structural and Investment Funds and the programmes relating to migration, security, justice and citizenship, health and culture.
47 (22) European Solidarity Corps
Resource Centres should assist the implementing bodies, the participating organisations and the young people taking part in the
European Solidarity Corps in order to raise the quality of the implementation of the activities of the European Solidarity Corps as well as to enhance the identification and validation of competences acquired through these activities including through
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producing Youthpass certificates.
AMD 35 Linked to line 148 48 (23) The European Solidarity (23) The European Solidarity
Corps Portal should be Corps Portal should be continuously developed in order to continuously developed in order ensure easy access to the European to ensure easy, barrier-free and
Solidarity Corps and to provide a user friendly access to the one-stop shop for both interested European Solidarity Corps, in individuals and organisations as compliance with the standards regards, inter alia, registration, established by Directive (EU) identification and matching of 2016/2102 of the European profiles and opportunities, Parliament and of the networking and virtual exchanges, Council 1a . The European online training, language and post Solidarity Corps Portal provides activity support as well as other a one-stop shop for both useful functionalities, which may interested individuals and arise in the future. organisations as regards, inter
alia, registration, identification and matching of profiles and opportunities, networking and virtual exchanges, online training, language and preactivity and post-activity support, feedback and evaluation mechanisms as well as other useful functionalities, which may arise in the future. While a one-stop shop provides the advantage of integrated
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access to diverse activities, individuals may encounter physical, social and other obstacles in accessing the European Solidarity Corps Portal. In order to overcome such obstacles, participating organisations should provide participants with registration support.
____________ 1a Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies (OJ L 327, 2.12.2016, p. 1).
AMD 36 49 (24) The European Solidarity (24) The European Solidarity
Corps Portal should be further Corps Portal should be further developed taking into account the developed taking into account
European Interoperability the European Interoperability
Framework 23 , which gives specific Framework 23 , which gives
guidance on how to set up specific guidance on how to set interoperable digital public services up interoperable digital public and is implemented in the Member services and is implemented in
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States and other member of the the Member States and other
European Economic Area through member of the European
National Interoperability Economic Area through
Frameworks. It offers public National Interoperability administrations 47 concrete Frameworks. It offers public recommendations on how to administrations 47 concrete improve governance of their recommendations on how to interoperability activities, establish improve governance of their cross-organisational relationships, interoperability activities, streamline processes supporting establish cross-organisational end-to-end digital services, and relationships, streamline ensure that both existing and new processes supporting end-to-end legislation do not compromise digital services, and ensure that interoperability efforts. both existing and new legislation
do not compromise interoperability efforts.
______________ Additionally, the Portal should
23 Communication from the be built in accordance with the
Commission to the European standards established by
Parliament, the Council, the Directive (EU) 2016/2102.
European Economic and Social ______________
Committee and the Committee of 23 Communication from the the Regions - European Commission to the European
Interoperability Framework – Parliament, the Council, the
Implementation Strategy European Economic and Social
(COM(2017) 134 final i). Committee and the Committee of the Regions - European
Interoperability Framework – Implementation Strategy (COM(2017) 134 final i).
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AMD 37 50 (24a) In order to enhance the transparency of the implementation process and increase the Programme´s effectiveness, the Commission should regularly consult key stakeholders, including participating organisations, on the implementation of the
Programme.
AMD 38 51 (24b) In order to ensure the proper functioning of the
Programme and the timely deployment of the Programme’s actions, it is essential that mechanisms are put in place within the Programme’s work programmes to guarantee that offers are presented to registered candidates within a reasonable and relatively predictable amount of time. Periodic information and updates on available placements and actively
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involved participating organisations should therefore be sent to registered candidates in order to stimulate their engagement with the Programme after their registration, while also offering them the opportunity to directly get in touch with the actors involved in the field of solidarity at both the national and European level.
52 (25) Regulation [the new Financial
Regulation] 24 (the ‘Financial
Regulation’) applies to this
Programme. It lays down rules on the implementation of the Union budget, including the rules on grants, prizes, procurement, indirect implementation, financial assistance, financial instruments and budgetary guarantees.
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Regulation].
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(26)In particular, in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) No
883/2013 of the European
Parliament and of the Council 25
and Council Regulation (Euratom,
EC) No 2185/96 26 , the European
Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) may carry out administrative investigations, including on-thespot checks and inspections, with a view to establishing whether there has been fraud, corruption or any other illegal activity affecting the financial interests of the Union. In accordance with Council
Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 27 , the
European Public Prosecutor’s
Office (EPPO) may investigate and prosecute fraud and other criminal offences affecting the financial interests of the Union as provided for in Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the
Council 28 . In accordance with the
Financial Regulation, any person or entity receiving Union funds is to fully cooperate in the protection of the Union’s financial interests, to grant the necessary rights and access to the Commission, OLAF,
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the EPPO and the European Court of Auditors (ECA) and to ensure that any third parties involved in the implementation of Union funds grant equivalent rights.
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883/2013 of the European
Parliament and the Council of 11
September 2013 concerning investigations conducted by the
European Anti-Fraud Office
(OLAF) (OJ L 248, 18.9.2013, p.
1).
26 Council Regulation (Euratom,
EC) No 2185/96 of 11 November
1996 concerning on-the-spot checks and inspections carried out by the Commission in order to protect the European Communities' financial interests against fraud and other irregularities (OJ L 292,
15.11.1996, p. 2).
27 Council Regulation (EU)
2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation on the establishment of
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28 Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the
European Parliament and of the
Council of 5 July 2017 on the fight against fraud to the Union’s financial interests by means of criminal law (OJ L 198, 28.7.2017, p. 29).
54 (27) The European Solidarity
Corps targets young people aged
18-30, and participation in the activities offered by the European
Solidarity Corps should require prior registration in the European
Solidarity Corps Portal.
AMD 39 Linked to line 199 55 (27a) The Union's principles of equal opportunities and non EP insists on abolishing discrimination suggest that the upper age limit for
Union citizens and long-term humanitarian aid strand residents in the Union of all walks of life and ages should be able to engage as active citizens. In view of the specific challenges of humanitarian
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action, participants in the EU Aid Volunteers initiative should be at least 18 years of age and may represent a wide variety of profiles and generations whose skills are relevant to the successful conduct of such humanitarian operations.
AMD 40 Linked to lines 143 and 56 (28) Special attention should be (28) Special attention should be (28) Special attention should 169 given to ensuring that the activities given to ensuring that the be given to ensuring that the supported by the European activities supported by the activities supported by the Related to inclusion
Solidarity Corps are accessible to European Solidarity Corps are European Solidarity Corps are all young people, notably the most accessible to all young people, accessible to all young people, Compromise proposal (not disadvantaged ones. Special in particular those with fewer notably the most disadvantaged discussed yet): measures should be in place to opportunities, as further ones. Special measures should promote social inclusion, the detailed in the Inclusion and be in place to promote social (28) Special attention participation of disadvantaged Diversity Strategy developed inclusion, the participation of should be given to young people, as well as to take and applied within the disadvantaged young people, ensuring that the activities into account the constraints framework of the Erasmus+ as well as to take into account supported by the European imposed by the remoteness of a programme. Special measures, the constraints imposed by the Solidarity Corps are number of rural areas and of the such as appropriate formats of remoteness of a number of accessible to all young outermost regions of the Union and solidarity activities and rural areas and of the outermost people, notably the most the Overseas Countries and personalised guidance, should regions of the Union and the disadvantaged ones.
Territories. Similarly, the be in place to promote social Overseas Countries and Special measures should participating countries should inclusion, the participation of Territories, as well as by the be in place to promote endeavour to adopt all appropriate young people with fewer poverty of some peri-urban social inclusion, the measures to remove legal and opportunities, as well as to take areas. Similarly, the participation of administrative obstacles to the into account the constraints participating countries should disadvantaged young
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proper functioning of the European imposed by the remoteness of a endeavour to adopt all people, including
Solidarity Corps. This should number of rural areas and of the appropriate measures to reasonable resolve, where possible, and outermost regions of the Union remove legal and accommodation enabling without prejudice to the Schengen and the Overseas Countries and administrative obstacles to the the effective participation acquis and Union law on the entry Territories. To that end, young proper functioning of the of persons with and residence of third-country people with fewer opportunities European Solidarity Corps. disabilities on an equal nationals, administrative issues that should, without prejudice to the This should resolve, where basis with others in create difficulties in obtaining visas possibility to participate fullpossible, and without prejudice accordance with Article and residence permits, as well as time and in a country other to the Schengen acquis and 27 of the UN Convention the issuing of a European Health than the country of residence, Union law on the entry and on the Rights of Persons
Insurance Card in the case of crossalso have the possibility to residence of third-country with Disabilities and with border activities within the participate part-time or in the nationals, administrative issues Council Directive
European Union. country of residence, and that create difficulties in 2000/78/EC1a, as well as should benefit from other obtaining visas and residence to take into account the
measures aimed at facilitating permits, as well as the issuing constraints imposed by the their participation in the of a European Health Insurance remoteness of a number of Programme. Similarly, the Card in the case of crossrural areas and of the participating countries should border activities within the outermost regions of the endeavour to adopt all European Union. Union and the Overseas appropriate measures to remove Countries and Territories legal and administrative as well as by the poverty obstacles to the proper of some peri-urban functioning of the European areas. Similarly, the Solidarity Corps. This should participating countries resolve, where possible, and should endeavour to adopt without prejudice to the all appropriate measures to Schengen acquis and Union law remove legal and on the entry and residence of administrative obstacles to third-country nationals, the proper functioning of administrative issues that create the European Solidarity
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difficulties in obtaining visas Corps. This should and residence permits, as well as resolve, where possible, the issuing of a European Health and without prejudice to Insurance Card in the case of the Schengen acquis and cross-border activities within the Union law on the entry and European Union. residence of third-country nationals, administrative issues that create difficulties in obtaining visas and residence permits, as well as the issuing of a European Health Insurance Card in the case of cross-border activities within the European Union. AMD 41 Linked to line 190 57 (28a) Particular attention and support should be given to the capacity of hosting partner organisations in third countries and the need to embed the activities of volunteers within the local context and to facilitate volunteers’ interaction with local humanitarian actors, the hosting community and civil society.
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(29)Reflecting the importance of (29) Reflecting the importance (29) Reflecting the importance tackling climate change in line with of tackling climate change in of tackling climate change in the Union's commitments to line with the Union's line with the Union's implement the Paris Agreement commitments to implement the commitments to implement the and achieve the United Nations Paris Agreement and achieve the Paris Agreement and […] the
Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Sustainable United Nations 2030 Agenda this Programme will contribute to Development Goals, this for Sustainable Development, mainstream climate action and to Programme will contribute to this Programme will contribute the achievement of an overall mainstream climate action and to to mainstream climate action target of 25 % of the Union budget the achievement of an overall and to the achievement of an expenditures supporting climate target of at least 25 % of the overall target of [25 %] of the objectives. Relevant actions will be Union budget expenditures Union budget expenditures identified during the Programme's supporting climate objectives supporting climate objectives. preparation and implementation, over the 2021-2027 period of Relevant actions will be and reassessed in the context of the the Multiannual Financial identified during the relevant evaluations and review Framework, and an annual Programme's preparation and processes. target of 30 % as soon as implementation, and reassessed
possible and not later than in the context of the relevant 2027. Relevant actions will be evaluations and review identified during the processes. Programme's preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the relevant evaluations and review processes.
59 (30) This Regulation lays down a financial envelope for the period
2021-2027 which is to constitute
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the prime reference amount, within the meaning of Point 17 of the
Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, for the European
Parliament and the Council during
the annual budgetary procedure 29 .
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between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on
Better Law-Making of 13 April
2016 (OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1).
AMD 43 60 (30a) An adequate part of the budget should be dedicated to the exchange of best practices among Member States and the development of youth networks.
61 (31) The types of financing and the methods of implementation under
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this Regulation shall be chosen on the basis of their ability to achieve the specific objectives of the actions and to deliver results, taking into account, in particular, the costs of controls, the administrative burden, and the expected risk of non-compliance.
For grants, this shall include consideration of the use of lump sums, flat rates and scales of unit costs.
62 (32) Third countries which are members of the European
Economic Area (EEA) may participate in the Programme in the framework of the cooperation established under the European
Economic Area (EEA) agreement, which provides for the implementation of Union programmes by a decision under that agreement. Third countries may also participate on the basis of other legal instruments. This
Regulation should grant the necessary rights for and access to the authorising officer responsible,
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the European Anti-Fraud Office
(OLAF) as well as the European
Court of Auditors to comprehensively exert their respective competences. The full participation of third countries in the Programme should be subject to the conditions laid down in specific agreements covering the participation of the third country concerned to the Programme. Full participation entails, moreover, the obligation to set up a national agency and managing some of the actions of the Programme at decentralised level. Individuals and entities from third countries that are not associated to the
Programme should be able to participate in some of the actions of the Programme, as defined in the work programme and the calls for proposals published by the
Commission.
63 (33) In order to maximise the impact of the European Solidarity
Corps, provisions should be made to allow participating countries and
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European Solidarity Corps.
64 (34) Pursuant to [Article 88 of New
Council Decision on association of
OCTs] 30 , persons and entities established in overseas countries and territories are eligible for funding subject to the rules and objectives of the Programme and possible arrangements applicable to the Member State to which the relevant overseas country or territory is linked.
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30 [Pending reference on New
Council Decision on association of
OCTs].
AMD 44 65 (35) In line with the Commission's (35) In line with the (35) In view of Article 349 of communication on 'A stronger and Commission's communication the Treaty on the renewed strategic partnership with on 'A stronger and renewed Functioning of the European the Union's outermost regions' 31 , strategic partnership with the Union and in line with the the Programme should take into Union's outermost regions' 31 , Commission's communication
account the specific situation of the Programme should take into on 'A stronger and renewed these regions. Measures will be account the specific situation of strategic partnership with the
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taken to increase the outermost these regions. Measures will be Union's outermost regions' 31 ,
regions' participation in all actions. taken to increase the outermost the Programme should take
Such measures will be monitored regions' participation in all into account the specific regularly and evaluated. actions, including reinforced situation of these regions.
publicity. Such measures will be Measures will be taken to _____________ monitored regularly and increase the outermost regions'
31 Communication from the evaluated. participation in all actions.
Commission to the European Such measures will be
Parliament, the Council, the _____________ monitored regularly and
European Economic and Social 31 Communication from the evaluated
Committee, the Committee of the Commission to the European
Regions and the European Parliament, the Council, the _____________
Investment bank on A stronger and European Economic and Social 31 Communication from the
renewed strategic partnership with Committee, the Committee of Commission to the European the EU's outermost regions the Regions and the European Parliament, the Council, the (COM(2017) 623 final i). Investment bank on A stronger European Economic and Social
and renewed strategic Committee, the Committee of partnership with the EU's the Regions and the European outermost regions (COM(2017) Investment bank on A stronger 623 final). and renewed strategic partnership with the EU's outermost regions (COM(2017) 623 final i).
AMD 45 66 (36) In compliance with the (36) Given that the Programme
Financial Regulation, the is implemented over a seven
Commission should adopt work year period, it is necessary to programmes and inform the provide for adequate flexibility
European Parliament and the to enable the Programme to
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Council thereof. The work adapt to changing realities and programme should set out the political priorities for the measures needed for their implementation of solidarity implementation in line with the activities. As such, this general and specific objectives of Regulation does not set out in the Programme, the selection and detail how the actions will be award criteria for grants, as well as designed and it does not all other elements required. Work prejudge political priorities or programmes and any amendments respective budgetary priorities to them should be adopted by for the next seven years. implementing acts in accordance Instead, the secondary policy with the examination procedure. choices and priorities,
including details of specific actions, to be implemented through the different activities should be determined through an annual work programme in compliance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council 1a (the Financial Regulation). The work programme should also set out the measures needed for their implementation in line with the general and specific objectives of the Programme, the selection and award criteria for grants, as well as all other elements required. Work programmes and
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any amendments to them should be adopted by means of a delegated act. To ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the Commission, when preparing and drawing up delegated acts, should carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level and ensure a simultaneous, timely and appropriate transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and to the Council.
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and Decision No 541/2014/EU and repealing Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018).
67 (37) Pursuant to paragraph 22 and
23 of the Interinstitutional agreement for Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016, there is a need to evaluate this Programme on the basis of information collected through specific monitoring requirements, while avoiding overregulation and administrative burdens, in particular on Member
States. Such requirements should include specific, measurable and realistic indicators which can be measured over time as a basis for evaluating the effects of the
Programme on the ground.
AMD 46 68 (38) Appropriate outreach, (38) Appropriate outreach, publicity and dissemination of the publicity and dissemination of opportunities and results of the the opportunities and results of actions supported by the the actions supported by the
Programme should be ensured at Programme should be ensured at
European, national and local level. European, regional, national and
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Special attention should be paid to local level. The Programme social enterprises encouraging should be promoted through them to support the European dynamic means of
Solidarity Corps activities. The communication, with special outreach, publicity and focus on social media, in order dissemination activities should rely to reach out to a large number on all the implementing bodies of of potential candidates. Special the Programme, including, when attention should be paid to social relevant, with the support of other enterprises encouraging them to key stakeholders. support the European Solidarity
Corps activities. The outreach, publicity and dissemination activities should rely on all the implementing bodies of the Programme, on Union websites, Union programmes associated with the European Solidarity Corps, and should, when relevant, involve the support of other key stakeholders.
AMD 47 69 (39) In order to better achieve the (39) In order to better achieve (39) In order to better achieve objectives of the Programme, the the objectives of the Programme, the objectives of the
Commission, Member States and the Commission, Member States Programme, the Commission, national agencies should preferably and national agencies should national authorities and work closely together in work closely together in national agencies should partnership with non-governmental partnership with nonpreferably work closely organisations, youth organisations governmental organisations, together and, where and local stakeholders having social enterprises, youth appropriate, in partnership
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expertise in solidarity actions. organisations, organisations with non-governmental representing people with organisations, youth
disabilities, and local organisations and local stakeholders having expertise in stakeholders having expertise solidarity actions, including in solidarity actions. volunteer infrastructure and support agencies such as volunteer centres.
AMD 48 70 (40) In order to ensure greater (40) In order to ensure greater efficiency in communication to the efficiency in communication to public at large and stronger the public at large and stronger synergies between the synergies between the communication activities communication activities undertaken at the initiative of the undertaken at the initiative of the
Commission, the resources Commission, the resources allocated to communication under allocated to communication this Regulation should also under this Regulation should contribute to covering the also contribute to covering the corporate communication of the corporate communication of the political priorities of the Union, political priorities of the Union provided that these are related to in a barrier-free way, provided the general objective of this that these are related to the
Regulation. general objective of this
Regulation.
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(41)In order to ensure efficient and (41) In order to ensure efficient effective implementation of this and effective implementation
Regulation, the Programme should of this Regulation, the make maximum use of existing Programme should make management arrangements already maximum use of existing in place. The implementation of the management arrangements
Programme should therefore be already in place. The overall entrusted to existing structures, implementation of the namely the Commission and the Programme should therefore be national agencies designated for entrusted to existing structures, the management of the actions namely the Commission and referred to in Chapter III of [New the national agencies
Erasmus Regulation]. The designated for the management
Commission should regularly of the actions referred to in consult key stakeholders, including Chapter III of [New Erasmus participating organisations, on the Regulation], whereas actions implementation of the European referred to in Chapter IV of
Solidarity Corps. the Programme should be mainly managed directly. The Commission should regularly consult key stakeholders,
including participating organisations, on the implementation of the European Solidarity Corps.
AMD 49 72 (42) In order to ensure sound (42) In order to ensure sound financial management and legal financial management, cost certainty in each participating optimisation and legal certainty
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country, each national authority in each participating country, should designate an independent each national authority should audit body. Where feasible, and in designate an independent audit order to maximise efficiency, the body. Where feasible, and in independent audit body could be order to maximise efficiency, the the same as the one designated for independent audit body could be the actions referred to in Chapter the same as the one designated
III of [New Erasmus Regulation]. for the actions referred to in
Chapter III of [New Erasmus Regulation].
AMD 50 73 (43) Member States should (43) Member States should endeavour to adopt all appropriate endeavour to adopt all measures to remove legal and appropriate measures to remove administrative obstacles to the legal and administrative proper functioning of the obstacles to the proper
Programme. This includes functioning of the Programme. resolving, where possible, and This includes resolving, where without prejudice to Union law on possible, and without prejudice the entry and residence of thirdto Union law on the entry and country nationals issues that create residence of third-country difficulties in obtaining visas and nationals issues that create residence permits. In line with difficulties in obtaining visas
Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the and residence permits and other
European Parliament and of the legal difficulties that could
Council 32 , Member States are prevent young people’s access
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32 Directive (EU) 2016/801 of the encouraged to establish fast
European Parliament and of the track admission procedures.
Council of 11 May 2016 on the conditions of entry and residence ______________ of third-country nationals for the 32 Directive (EU) 2016/801 of purposes of research, studies, the European Parliament and of training, voluntary service, pupil the Council of 11 May 2016 on exchange schemes or educational the conditions of entry and projects and au pairing (OJ L 132, residence of third-country
21.5.2016, p. 21). nationals for the purposes of research, studies, training,
voluntary service, pupil exchange schemes or educational projects and au pairing (OJ L 132, 21.5.2016, p. 21).
74 (44) The performance reporting system should ensure that data for monitoring programme implementation and evaluation are collected efficiently, effectively and in a timely manner, and at the appropriate level of granularity.
Such data should be communicated to the Commission in a way that complies with relevant data protection rules.
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AMD 51 75 (45) In order to ensure uniform deleted conditions for the implementation of this Regulation, implementing powers should be conferred on the
Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with
Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 i of the European Parliament and of the
Council 33 .
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33 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 i of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 16 February 2011.
Laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55
28.2.2011 p.13).
76 (46) In order to simplify requirements for beneficiaries, simplified grants in the form of lump-sums, unit-costs and flat-rate funding should be used to the maximum possible extent. The simplified grants to support the
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mobility actions of the Programme, as defined by the Commission, should take into account the living and subsistence costs of the host country. In accordance with national law, Member States should also be encouraged to exempt those grants from any taxes and social levies. The same exemption should apply to public or private entities awarding such financial support to the individuals concerned.
77 (47) In accordance with the
Financial Regulation, Regulation
(EU, Euratom) No 883/2013 of the
European Parliament and of the
Council, Council Regulation
(Euratom, EC) No 2988/95 34 ,
Council Regulation (Euratom, EC)
No 2185/96 and Council
Regulation (EU) 2017/1939, the financial interests of the Union are to be protected through proportionate measures, including the prevention, detection, correction and investigation of irregularities, including fraud, the
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recovery of funds lost, wrongly paid or incorrectly used and, where appropriate, the imposition of administrative sanctions. In order to review and/or complement the performance indicators of the
Programme, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission. It is of particular importance that the
Commission carries out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the
Interinstitutional Agreement on
Better Law-Making of 13 April
2016. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European
Parliament and the Council should receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of
Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated
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34 Council Regulation (EC,
Euratom) No 2988/95 of
18 December 1995 on the protection of the European
Communities financial interests
(OJ L 312, 23.12.95, p. 1).
AMD 52 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 78 (48) This Regulation respects the (48) This Regulation respects the 11.12.2019: fundamental rights and observes fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in the principles recognised in Council can accept AMD particular by the Charter of particular by the Charter of 52
Fundamental Rights of the Fundamental Rights of the
European Union 35 . In particular, European Union 35 . In particular,
this Regulation seeks to ensure full this Regulation seeks to ensure respect for the right to equality full respect for the right to between men and women and the equality between men and right to non-discrimination based women and the right to nonon sex, racial or ethnic origin, discrimination based on sex, religion or belief, disability, age or racial or ethnic origin, religion sexual orientation, and to promote or belief, disability, age or the application of Articles 21 and sexual orientation,
23 of the Charter of Fundamental socioeconomic background and
Rights of the European Union. to promote the application of
Articles 21 and 23 of the Charter ____________ of Fundamental Rights of the
35 EU Charter of Fundamental European Union.
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Rights (OJ C 326, 26.10.2012, p.
391). ____________
35 EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights (OJ C 326, 26.10.2012, p. 391).
79 (49) Horizontal financial rules adopted by the European
Parliament and the Council on the basis of Article 322 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union apply to this Regulation.
These rules are laid down in the
Financial Regulation and determine in particular the procedure for establishing and implementing the budget through grants, procurement, prizes, indirect implementation, and provide for checks on the responsibility of financial actors. Rules adopted on the basis of Article 322 of the
Treaty on the Functioning of the
European Union also concern the protection of the Union's budget in case of generalised deficiencies as regards the rule of law in the
Member States, as the respect for the rule of law is an essential
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precondition for sound financial management and effective Union funding.
80 (50) Since the objective of this
Regulation, namely to enhance the engagement of young people and organisations in accessible and high-quality solidarity activities, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of its scale and effects, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union.
In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that
Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
81 (51) [European Solidarity Corps
Regulation] should be repealed with effect from 1 January 2021.
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Regulation should apply from 1
January 2021.
HAVE ADOPTED THIS 83 REGULATION:
CHAPTER I 84 GENERAL PROVISIONS 85
Article 1 86 Subject matter
EP can accept Council text 87 This Regulation establishes the 1. This Regulation establishes AGREED AT TRILOGUE
European Solidarity Corps (the the European Solidarity Corps 12.11.2019
‘Programme’). (the ‘Programme’) which sets up two strands of actions:
(a) participation of young people in solidarity activities addressing societal challenges and
(b) participation of young people in humanitarian aid related solidarity activities (European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps).
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It lays down the objectives of the 2. This Regulation lays down AGREED AT TRILOGUE
Programme, the budget for the the objectives of the 12.11.2019 period 2021 – 2027, the forms of Programme, the budget for the
Union funding and the rules for period 2021 – 2027, the forms providing such funding. of Union funding and the rules
for providing such funding.
Article 2 89 Definitions
90 For the purposes of this
Regulation, the following definitions apply:
AMD 53 Linked to line 136 91 (1) ‘solidarity activity’ means a (1) ‘solidarity activity’ means a (1) 'solidarity activity’ means a high-quality temporary activity high-quality inclusive and high-quality temporary activity Council can accept contributing to the achievement of adequately funded activity contributing to the achievement compromise text without the objectives of the European addressing important societal of the objectives of the the words "and adequately
Solidarity Corps, which may take challenges to the benefit of a European Solidarity Corps, funded" the form of volunteering, community or of society as a which may take the form of traineeships, jobs, solidarity whole, contributing to the volunteering, traineeships, EP insists on keeping projects and networking activities achievement of the objectives of jobs, solidarity projects and "and adequately funded" in various fields, including those the European Solidarity Corps networking activities in various referred to in paragraph 13, which may take the form of fields, including those referred (1) ‘solidarity activity’ ensuring the European added value volunteering, traineeships, jobs, to in paragraph 13, ensuring means a high-quality, and compliance with health and solidarity projects and the European added value and inclusive [and adequately safety regulations; networking activities in various compliance with health, […] funded] activity that
fields, including those referred safety and security addresses important to in paragraph 13, ensuring the regulations; societal challenges, that
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European added value and contributes to the compliance with health and achievement of the safety regulations and objectives of the European international human rights Solidarity Corps, that standards; takes the form of volunteering, traineeships, jobs, solidarity projects and networking activities in various fields, including those referred to in point 13, that ensures the European added value and that complies with occupational health, safety regulations and relevant security rules
AMD 54 EP/Council text 92 (2) ‘registered candidate’ means (2) ‘registered candidate’ means (2) ‘registered candidate’ acceptable an individual aged between 17 and an individual aged between 17 means an individual aged AGREED AT TRILOGUE
30 years and who has registered in and 30 years who is legally between 17 and 30 years, who 12.11.2019 the European Solidarity Corps residing in a participating is legally residing in a
Portal to express the interest to country and who has registered participating country, and (2) ‘registered candidate’ engage in a solidarity activity but is in the European Solidarity Corps who has registered in the means an individual aged not yet participating in such Portal to express the interest to European Solidarity Corps between 17 and 30 years, activity; engage in a solidarity activity Portal to express the interest to who is legally residing in
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interest to engage in a solidarity activity but is not yet participating in such activity;
AMD 55 EP/Council text aceptable 93 (3) ‘participant’ means an (3) ‘participant’ means an (3) ‘participant’ means an (with or without "who" to individual aged between 18 and 30 individual aged between 18 and individual aged between 18 be decided by Juristyears, who has registered in the 30 years who is legally residing and 30 years, who is legally Linguists)
European Solidarity Corps Portal in a participating country, who residing in a participating AGREED AT TRILOGUE and takes part in a solidarity has registered in the European country, has registered in the 12.11.2019 activity under the European Solidarity Corps Portal and who European Solidarity Corps
Solidarity Corps; takes part in a solidarity activity Portal and takes part in a (3) ‘participant’ means an under the European Solidarity solidarity activity under the individual aged between
Corps; European Solidarity Corps; 18 and 30 years who is legally residing in a
participating country, who has registered in the European Solidarity Corps Portal and [who] takes part in a solidarity activity under the European Solidarity Corps;
AMD 56 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 94 (4) ‘young people with fewer (4) ‘young people with fewer (4) ‘young people with fewer 11.12.2019: opportunities’ means young people opportunities’ means people opportunities’ means young facing some obstacles that prevent who need additional support people facing some obstacles (4) ‘young people with them from having effective access due to various obstacles arising that prevent them from having fewer opportunities’ to opportunities under the from, for example disability, effective access to means young people who
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Programme for economic, social, health problems, educational opportunities under the for economic, social, cultural, geographical or health difficulties, their migrant Programme for economic, cultural, geographical or reasons or for reasons such as background, cultural social, cultural, geographical or health reasons, a migrant disabilities and educational differences, their economic, health reasons or for reasons background, or for difficulties; social and geographical such as disabilities and reasons such as disabilities
situation, including people from educational difficulties; or at and educational difficulties marginalised communities or at risk of facing discrimination or for any other reasons, risk of facing discrimination based on any of the grounds including those that can based on any of the grounds enshrined in Article 21 of the give rise to discrimination enshrined in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental under Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights Rights of the European Charter of Fundamental of the European Union; Union; Rights of the European Union, face obstacles that prevent them from having effective access to opportunities under the Programme;
AMD 57 EP can accept the Council 95 (5) ‘participating organisation’ (5) ‘participating organisation’ (5) ‘participating organisation’ text means any public or private entity, means any public or private means any public or private AGREED AT TRILOGUE whether local, regional, national or entity, whether non-profit or entity, whether non-profit or 12.11.2019 international, that has been profit making, local, regional, profit making, local, regional, attributed the European Solidarity national or international, that has national or international, that (5) ‘participating
Corps quality label; been attributed the European has been attributed the organisation’ means any
Solidarity Corps quality label, in European Solidarity Corps public or private entity, a host function, in a support quality label; whether non-profit or function, or in both functions, profit making, local, ensuring that the entity is able regional, national or
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to implement the high-quality international, that has been solidarity activities in attributed the European accordance with the objectives Solidarity Corps quality of the Programme; label;
AMD 58 Compromise text 96 (6) ‘volunteering’ means a (6) ‘volunteering’ means an acceptable for EP and solidarity activity taking place as optional solidarity activity Council voluntary unpaid activity for a consisting in the performance AGREED AT TRILOGUE period of up to 12 months; of an activity for the public 12.11.2019
benefit that contributes to the achievement of public welfare, (6) ‘volunteering’ means a which a participant performs in solidarity activity taking his or her free time and of his place, for a period of up to or her free will, without an 12 months, as voluntary entitlement to remuneration, for unpaid activity that a period of up to 12 months; contributes to the achievement of the common good ;
AMD 59 Compromise text 97 (7) ‘traineeship’ means a solidarity (7) ‘traineeship’ means a paid acceptable for EP and activity for a period from two to six solidarity activity that takes the Council months, renewable once and for a form of work practice within a AGREED AT TRILOGUE maximum duration of 12 months, participating organisation for a 12.11.2019 that is offered and paid by the period from three to six months, participating organisation hosting renewable once and for a (7) ‘traineeship’ means a the European Solidarity Corps maximum duration of 12 solidarity activity that participant; months, that is offered and paid takes the form of work
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(8)‘job’ means a solidarity activity (8) ‘job’ means a decently paid for a period from 2 to 12 months, solidarity activity for a period EP ready to drop AMD 60 paid by the participating from three to 12 months, which provided that additional organisation employing the includes a learning and elements (to be proposed European Solidarity Corps training component, is based on by Rapporteur) be participant; a written agreement and is incorporated to line 29
offered and paid by the participating organisation Compromise text employing the European acceptable for Council Solidarity Corps participant, not (under scrutiny by EP): replacing or substituting an existing employment 8)‘job’ means a solidarity opportunity; activity for a period from three to 12 months, offered and paid by the participating organisation employing the European Solidarity Corps participant;
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presenting a clear European participants, with a view to added value; addressing key challenges within their communities while presenting a clear European added value; AMD 62 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 100
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solidarity activities under the solidarity activity European Solidarity Corps, in provided, to a participating the role of a host and/or in a organisation willing to support function, that certifies provide solidarity that the organisation is able to activities under the ensure the quality of solidarity European Solidarity Corps, activities, during all stages of in the role of a host and/or the solidarity experience, in in a support function;
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accordance with the principles and objectives of the Programme;
101 (11) ‘European Solidarity Corps
Resource Centres’ means the additional functions performed by designated national agencies to support the development, implementation and quality of activities under the European
Solidarity Corps as well as the identification of the competences acquired by the participants through their solidarity activities;
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Corps Portal” means an 12.11.2019 interactive web-based tool, in all official languages of the (11a) “European Union, managed under the Solidarity Corps Portal” responsibility of the means an interactive Commission, that provides web-based tool, in all relevant online services to official languages of the support the quality Union, managed under implementation of the the responsibility of the European Solidarity Corps, Commission, that complementing activities of provides relevant online
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participating organisations, services to support the including providing quality implementation information about the of the European European Solidarity Corps, Solidarity Corps, registering participants, complementing activities searching for participants, of participating advertising and searching for organisations, including solidarity activities, providing information searching for potential about the European project partners, supporting Solidarity Corps, contact making and offers for registering participants, solidarity activities, training, searching for communication and participants, advertising networking activities, and searching for informing and notifying solidarity activities, about opportunities, searching for potential providing a feedback project partners, mechanism regarding the supporting contact quality of solidarity activities making and offers for as well as other relevant solidarity activities, developments related to the training, communication European Solidarity Corps; and networking activities, informing and notifying about opportunities, providing a feedback mechanism regarding the quality of solidarity activities as well as other relevant developments related to
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103 (12) ‘Union transparency and recognition tools’ means instruments that help stakeholders to understand, appreciate and, as appropriate, recognise non-formal and informal learning outcomes throughout the Union. All participants will receive, after completion of their activities, a certification stating the learning outcomes of, and skills developed during their activities, such as
Youthpass or Europass;
AGREED AT TRILOGUE 104 (13) ‘humanitarian aid activity’ (13) ‘humanitarian aid 11.12.2019: means an activity supporting activity’ means an activity humanitarian aid operations in supporting post-crisis and (13) ‘humanitarian aid third countries intended to provide long-term humanitarian aid activity’ means an activity needs-based emergency assistance operations in third countries supporting post-crisis and aimed at preserving life, preventing intended to provide needslong-term humanitarian and alleviating human suffering, based […] assistance aimed at aid operations in third and maintaining human dignity in preserving life, preventing and countries intended to the face of man-made crises or alleviating human suffering, provide needs-based […] natural disasters, including and maintaining human dignity assistance aimed at assistance, relief and protection in the face of exceptional preserving life, preventing operations in humanitarian crises occurrences linked with manand alleviating human
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or their immediate aftermath, made crises or natural suffering, and maintaining supporting measures to ensure disasters, including assistance, human dignity in the face access to people in need and to relief and protection operations of […] man-made crises or facilitate the free flow of in ongoing humanitarian crises natural disasters, including assistance, as well as actions aimed or their […] aftermath, assistance, relief and at reinforcing disaster preparedness supporting measures to ensure protection operations in and disaster risk reduction, linking access to people in need and to ongoing humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and facilitate the free flow of crises or their […] development, and contributing assistance, as well as actions aftermath, supporting towards strengthening resilience aimed at reinforcing disaster measures to ensure access and capacity to cope with, and preparedness and disaster risk to people in need and to recover from crises; reduction, linking relief, facilitate the free flow of
rehabilitation and development, assistance, as well as and contributing towards actions aimed at strengthening resilience and reinforcing disaster capacity to cope with, and preparedness and disaster recover from crises; risk reduction, linking relief, rehabilitation and development, and contributing towards strengthening resilience and capacity to cope with, and recover from crises;
105 (14) ‘third country’ means a country that is not member of the
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(15)‘third country associated to the programme’ means a third country which is party to an agreement with the Union allowing for its participation in the Programme and which fulfils all the obligations laid down in this Regulation in relation to Member States;
107 (16) ‘third country not associated to the programme’ means a third country which does not participate fully in the Programme but whose legal entities may exceptionally benefit from the Programme in duly justified cases in the Union’s interest.
Article 3 108 Programme objectives
AMD 63 Compromise text 109 1. The general objective of the 1. The general objective of the acceptable for EP and
Programme is to enhance the Programme is to promote Council engagement of young people and solidarity as a value, mainly AGREED AT TRILOGUE organisations in accessible and through volunteering, enhance 12.11.2019 high-quality solidarity activities as the engagement of a generation a means to contribute to of young people more likely to 1. The general objective of strengthening cohesion, solidarity engage in solidarity activities the Programme is to and democracy in the Union and and organisations in accessible enhance the engagement of
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abroad, addressing societal and and high-quality solidarity young people and humanitarian challenges on the activities as a means to organisations in accessible ground, with particular effort to contribute to strengthening and high-quality solidarity promote social inclusion. social cohesion, solidarity, activities, mainly
democracy, European identity volunteering, as a means and active citizenship in the to contribute to Union and abroad, to support strengthening cohesion, communities and respond to solidarity, democracy, societal and humanitarian European identity and challenges on the ground, with active citizenship in the particular effort to promote Union and abroad, social inclusion and equal addressing societal and opportunities. humanitarian challenges on the ground, with particular effort to promote sustainable development, social inclusion and equal opportunities.
AMD 64 Compromise text 110 2. The specific objective of the 2. The specific objective of the 2. The specific objective of the acceptable for EP and
Programme is to provide young Programme is to provide young Programme is to provide young Council people, including those with fewer people, including those with people, in particular those AGREED AT TRILOGUE opportunities, with easily fewer opportunities, with easily with fewer opportunities, with 12.11.2019 accessible opportunities for accessible and inclusive easily accessible opportunities engagement in solidarity activities opportunities for engagement in for engagement in solidarity 2. The specific objective of in Europe and abroad while solidarity activities inducing activities in Europe and abroad the Programme is to improving and properly validating positive societal changes in while improving and properly provide young people, their competences as well as Europe and abroad while validating their competences as including those with fewer facilitating their employability and improving and properly well as facilitating their opportunities, with easily
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transition into the labour market. validating their competences for employability and transition accessible opportunities personal, educational, social, into the labour market. for engagement in
cultural, civic and professional solidarity activities that development, as well as induce positive societal facilitating their continuous changes in Europe and engagement as active citizens, abroad, while improving employability and transition into and properly validating the labour market. their competences, as well as facilitating their continuous engagement as active citizens and their employability and transition into the labour market.
AMD 65 Horizontal provision to be 111 2a. Feedback provided by aligned with Erasmus+ participants and participating organisations shall also include an evaluation of the fulfilment of the Programme’s objectives.
112 3. The objectives of the
Programme shall be implemented under the following strands of actions:
AMD 66 EP ready to drop AMD 66 113 (a) participation of young people in (a) participation of young people
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achieve the Sustainable Development Goals; AMD 67 Linked to lines 137 and 114
(b) participation of young people in (b) participation of young people 199 (age limit) humanitarian aid related solidarity and people with expertise in activities (European Voluntary humanitarian aid related EP maintains AMD 67 and
Humanitarian Aid Corps) as solidarity activities (European Council sticks to PGA for referred to in Article 10. Voluntary Humanitarian Aid the time being
Corps) as referred to in Article 10 and actions inside and outside the Union aimed at building hosting organisations’ capacity for humanitarian aid in third countries as referred to in Article 11.
AMD 68 Horizontal issue to be 115 3a. The operational objectives aligned with Erasmus+ and corresponding policy priorities of the actions to be implemented through the activities under the strands referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article shall be specified in detail in the annual work programmes to be adopted pursuant to Article 18.
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116 CHAPTER II
117 ACTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN
SOLIDARITY CORPS
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(c) solidarity projects, as referred to in Article 9;
123 (d) networking activities, as referred to in Article 5;
124 (e) quality and support measures, as referred to in Article 5.
125 2. The Programme shall support the solidarity activities which present a clear European added value, for example through:
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(a) their transnational character, particularly with regard to learning mobility and cooperation;
128 (b) their ability to complement with other programmes and policies at local, regional, national, Union and international level;
129 (c) their European dimension regarding the topics, aims, approaches, expected outcomes and other aspects of these solidarity activities;
AMD 70 130 (d) their approach to involve young (d) their inclusiveness and their people from different backgrounds; effective ability to involve young
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131 (e) their contribution to the effective use of Union transparency and recognition tools.
132 3. The solidarity activities shall be implemented in accordance with specific requirements set for each type of activity carried out in the framework of the Programme as referred to in Articles 5, 7, 8, 9 and
11, as well as with applicable regulatory frameworks in participating countries.
133 4. References to the European
Voluntary Service in the Union legislation shall be read as including volunteering activities under both Regulation 1288/2013 i and this Regulation.
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AMD 72 Linked to line 91 136 (a) reinforcing the capacities of the (a) reinforcing the capacities of participating organisations to offer the participating organisations to Council can accept good quality projects to an offer high quality, easily compromise text without increasing number of European accessible and adequately the words "and adequately
Solidarity Corps participants; funded projects to an increasing funded" number of European Solidarity
Corps participants; EP insists on keeping "and adequately funded"
(a) reinforcing the capacities of the participating organisations to offer high quality, easily accessible [and adequately funded]
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AMD 73 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 137 (b) attracting newcomers, both (b) attracting newcomers, both 11.12.2019: young people and participating young people and those with organisations; some experience in the EU Aid EP ready to drop AMD 73
Volunteers initiative and participating organisations;
AMD 74 To be further discussed 138 (ba) facilitating the access of people with disabilities to all activities offered;
AMD 75 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 139 (c) providing opportunities to give (c) providing opportunities to 11.12.2019: feedback on solidarity activities; give feedback on solidarity and activities as well as to promote c) providing participants
the Programme as an and participating ambassador; and organisations with opportunities to give feedback on solidarity activities and to promote the Programme; and
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participating in the European Solidarity Corps and thus support its wider positive impact, including through activities such as the exchange of best practices and the creation of networks.
141 2. Quality and support measures, as referred to in Article 4.1, point (e), shall include:
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AMD 77 Linked to line 56 143 (ab) measures aimed at promoting social inclusion and Related to inclusion equal opportunities, in particular for the participation of young people with fewer opportunities, such as appropriate formats of solidarity activities and personalised support;
AMD 78 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 144 (ac) measures aimed at 12.11.2019 ensuring capacity building and administrative support for EP ready to drop AMD 78 participating organisations;
AGREED AT TRILOGUE 145 (a) measures aimed at ensuring the (a) measures aimed at ensuring 11.12.2019 quality of volunteering, the quality and accessibility of traineeships or jobs, including volunteering, traineeships or (a) measures taken before, training, language support, jobs, including training, during or after the complementary insurance, support language support, activities aimed at before or after the solidarity complementary insurance, ensuring the quality and activity as well as the further use of support before or after the accessibility of
Youthpass that identifies and solidarity activity as well as volunteering, traineeships documents the competences the further use of Youthpass or jobs, including online
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acquired during the solidarity that identifies and documents and offline training, activities for participants, and the competences acquired where appropriate capacity building and, during the solidarity activities adapted to the activities administrative support for for participants, and capacity and their context; participating organisations; building and, administrative language support; […]
support for participating insurance, including organisations; accident and sickness insurance; […] the further use of Youthpass that identifies and documents the competences acquired by participants during the solidarity activities; […] capacity building; and administrative support for participating organisations;
AMD 79 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 146 (b) the development and (b) the development and 12.11.2019 maintenance of a quality label for maintenance of the quality entities willing to provide labels for entities willing to EP ready to drop AMD 79 solidarity activities for the provide solidarity activities for
European Solidarity Corps; the European Solidarity Corps;
147 (c) the activities of European
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of the European Solidarity Corps and enhance the validation of their outcomes;
AMD 80 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 148 (d) the establishment, maintenance (d) the establishment, 12.11.2019: and updating of the European maintenance and updating of an
Solidarity Corps Portal and other accessible European Solidarity (d) the establishment, relevant online services as well as Corps Portal in at least all maintenance and updating the necessary IT support systems official languages of the Union of an accessible European and web-based tools. and other relevant online Solidarity Corps Portal in
services as well as necessary IT all official languages of support systems and web-based the Union and other tools which shall comply with relevant online services as the accessibility requirements of well as necessary IT Directive (EU) 2016/2102; support systems and webbased tools.
AMD 81 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 149 (da) measures to encourage 12.11.2019: social enterprises to support
Programme activities or to EP ready to drop AMD 81 allow employees to engage in volunteering activities in the framework of the Programme;
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151 CHAPTER III
152 PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG
PEOPLE IN SOLIDARITY
ACTIVITIES ADDRESSING
SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
153 Article 6
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particular effort to promote solidarity, active social inclusion and equal citizenship and democracy
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opportunities. in the Union and abroad, while also responding to societal challenges with particular effort to promote social inclusion and equal opportunities.
155 2. The strand shall support activities as referred to in Article
4.1, in points (a), (b), (c), (d) and
(e) in the following ways:
156 (a) volunteering, as referred to in
Article 7;
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shall be of high quality; 12.11.2019
158 (c) solidarity projects, as referred to in Article 9;
159 (d) networking activities for individuals and organisations
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participating in this strand in accordance with Article 5;
160 (e) quality and support measures in accordance with Article 5.
Article 7 161 Volunteering in solidarity activities
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Article 4.1, point (a) shall include a point (a) of Article 4(1) shall Compromise text to be learning and training component, include a solid education and further discussed shall not substitute traineeships or learning dimension, and online jobs, shall not be equated with and offline training tailored to Council cannot accept text employment and shall be based on the activity in question to take in square brackets a written volunteering agreement. place before and during the
activity, shall strive for a clear EP insists on EP insists on impact on identified community keeping references to needs shall not substitute content of the agreement traineeships or jobs, shall not be and insurance equated with employment and (see new text in square shall be based on a written brackets, submitted on volunteering agreement in 10.12.2019) accordance with relevant national law. Such an 1. Volunteering as referred agreement shall ensure the to in Article 4(1)(a) shall adequate legal, social and include a learning and financial protection of the training component, shall participant. not substitute traineeships
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or jobs, shall not be equated with employment and shall be based on a written volunteering agreement [which in particular sets out the rights and obligations, the duration and location of deployment and task description. Such an agreement shall insure the accident and sickness insurance for the participant unless such insurance is already otherwise provided.]
AMD 86 Linked to line 168 163 2. Volunteering may take place in a 2. Volunteering shall as a rule country other than the country of take place in a country other Council cannot accept EP residence of the participant (crossthan the country of residence of AMD 86, even if "only" border) or in the country of the participant (cross-border). was replaced by "mainly" residence of the participant (in Volunteering may take place in country). the country of residence of the EP is ready to accept
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of participants residing in a country other than the country in which the activity is taking place.
Article 8 164 Traineeships and jobs
AMD 87 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 165 1. A traineeship as referred to in 1. A traineeship shall be paid 12.11.2019:
Article 4.1, point (b) shall be based and based on a written on a written traineeship agreement traineeship agreement concluded 1. A traineeship as referred in accordance with the applicable at the beginning of the to in Article 4(1)(b) shall regulatory framework of the traineeship in accordance with be based on a written country where the traineeship takes the applicable regulatory traineeship agreement place, as appropriate, and taking framework of the country where concluded at the latest at into account the principles of the the traineeship takes place, as the beginning of the
Quality Framework for appropriate. The traineeship traineeship in accordance
Traineeships (2014/C 88/01). agreement shall indicate the with the applicable
Traineeships shall not substitute educational objectives, the regulatory framework of jobs. working conditions and the the country where the
duration of the traineeship, the traineeship takes place, as remuneration which the appropriate, and taking participant is to receive and the into account the principles rights and obligations of the of the Quality Framework parties and shall take into for Traineeships (2014/C account the principles of the 88/01). Traineeships shall Quality Framework for not substitute jobs. Traineeships (2014/C 88/01). Traineeships shall not substitute jobs.
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AMD 88 Linked to line 98 166 2. A job as referred to in Article 2. A job shall be based on a
4.1, point (b) shall be based on an written employment contract Compromise text agreed at employment contract in accordance which respects all the terms and technical level, except the with the national regulatory conditions of employment as term "written" which EP framework of the participating established in the national law, wants to maintain and country where the job is being applicable collective Council to delete carried out. The financial support agreements, or both, of the to participating organisations country in which the job is 2. A job as referred to in offering jobs shall not exceed 12 being carried out. The financial Article 4(1)(b) shall be months in cases when the duration support to participating based on a [written] of the employment contract organisations offering jobs shall employment contract that exceeds 12 months. not exceed twelve months in is in accordance with the
cases when the duration of the applicable national law employment contract exceeds and collective agreements twelve months. of the participating country in which the job is being carried out and that ensures good working conditions and fair remuneration. The financial support to participating organisations offering jobs shall not exceed twelve months in cases when the duration of the employment contract exceeds twelve months.
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AMD 89 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 167 3. Traineeships and jobs shall 3. Traineeships and jobs shall 12.11.2019: include a learning and training include a solid education and component. learning component before and EP ready to drop AMD 89
during the activity, to help the participant gain relevant experience with a view to developing competences useful for the participant’s personal, educational, social, civic and professional development.
AMD 90 Linked to line 163 168 4. Traineeships and jobs may take 4. Traineeships and jobs shall as place in a country other than the a rule take place in a country Related to inclusion country of residence of the other than the country of participant (cross-border) or in the residence of the participant Council cannot accept EP country of residence of the (cross-border). Traineeships AMD 90, even if "only" participant (in-country). and jobs may take place in the was replaced by "mainly"
country of residence of the participant (in-country), but EP is ready to accept shall only be open to the changing "only" by participation of young people "mainly" but sticks to with fewer opportunities and AMD 90. shall include the participation of participants residing in a country other than the country in which the activity is taking place.
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AMD 91 Related to inclusion 169 4a. An adequate budget shall be allocated to fund the reasonable Compromise proposal (not accommodation enabling the discussed yet): effective participation of persons with disabilities on an EP to drop AMD 91, since equal basis with others, in contents are included in accordance with Article 27 of compromise text for line the UN Convention on the 56
Rights of Persons with Disabilities and with Council Directive 2000/78/EC i 1a .
______________ 1a Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (OJ L 303, 2.12.2000, p. 16).
Article 9 170 Solidarity projects
171 A solidarity project as referred to in Article 4.1, point (c) shall not substitute traineeships and/or jobs.
CHAPTER IV EP ready to accept 172 dropping a number of
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EUROPEAN VOLUNTARY 173 HUMANITARIAN AID CORPS
Article 10 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 174 Purpose and types of actions 11.12.2019:
Article 10 Purpose, principles and
types of actions
AMD 92 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 175 1. Actions implemented under the 1. Actions implemented under 11.12.2019: strand ‘European Voluntary the strand ‘European Voluntary
Humanitarian Aid Corps’ shall in Humanitarian Aid Corps’ shall EP to drop AMD 92 particular contribute to providing in particular contribute to needs-based humanitarian aid providing needs-based aimed at preserving life, preventing humanitarian aid aimed at and alleviating human suffering preserving life, preventing and and maintaining human dignity and alleviating human suffering and to strengthening the capacity and maintaining human dignity in resilience of vulnerable or disasterthe context of natural or manaffected communities. made disasters and to
strengthening the capacity and resilience of communities that are vulnerable, fragile or affected by natural or manmade disasters, and to facilitate the transition from the
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humanitarian response to longterm sustainable and inclusive development.
AMD 93 Linked to lines 11, 17 and 176 2. The actions under this Chapter 2. Actions under this Chapter 184 shall be carried out in compliance shall be carried out in with the humanitarian aid compliance with the European Acceptance of para g) principles of humanity, neutrality, Consensus on Humanitarian enables EP to drop AMD impartiality and independence. Aid, promoting the 99 (line 184)
fundamental humanitarian aid principles of humanity, Compromise proposal neutrality, impartiality and acceptable for EP and independence while reiterating Council except parts the Union’s firm commitment between square brackets: to a needs-based approach, without discrimination between 2. The actions under this or within affected populations, Chapter shall: and respecting international a) be carried out in law. compliance with the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence, as well as with the 'do no harm' principle [and with relevant provisions of the European Consensus
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on Humanitarian Aid];
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b)respond to the humanitarian needs of local communities identified in
cooperation with humanitarian and other relevant partners within the hosting country or region;
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c)be planned on the basis of risk
assessments and undertaken in a way that ensures a high level of safety and security of volunteers;
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d)where relevant, facilitate the
transition from the humanitarian response to long-term sustainable and inclusive development;
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e)facilitate the active involvement of local
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staff and volunteers of the countries and communities where the actions are implemented [line 190/ AM 102];
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f)[wherever relevant, take into account
specific needs of women and seek to involve women and groups and networks of women]; [line 179/AM96];
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g)contribute to efforts to strengthen local preparedness and/or response to
humanitarian crises [line 184/AMD 99]
AMD 94 Linked to line 324 177 2a. The Union's humanitarian aid is delivered in situations Compromise proposal: where other instruments related EP to drop AMD 94 to development cooperation, crisis management and civil protection might operate. The
European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps shall
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work in a coherent and complementary manner and avoid overlaps with relevant Union policies and instruments, in particular with the Union's humanitarian aid policy, development cooperation policy and the Union Civil Protection Mechanism.
AMD 95 Linked to line 17 178 2b. In promoting a coherent Compromise proposal: international response to EP to drop AMD 95 humanitarian crises, the actions under this Chapter shall be in accordance with those coordinated by United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
AMD 96 Compromise proposal: 179 2c. The European EP to drop AMD 96
Humanitarian Aid Corps shall contribute to strengthening the gender perspective in Union humanitarian aid, promoting adequate humanitarian responses to the specific needs of women. Special attention shall be paid to cooperation
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with women's groups and networks in order to promote the participation and leadership of women in humanitarian aid and to draw on their capacities and expertise to contribute to recovery, peace building, disaster risk reduction and resilience of affected communities.
AMD 97 Linked to line 189 180 2d. The specific terms of deployment shall be set out, in Compromise proposal: close consultation with the EP to drop AMD 97 hosting organisations, in an agreement between the sending organisation and the European
Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps, including rights and obligations, the duration and location of deployment and the tasks to be carried out.
181 3. The strand shall support activities as referred to in Article
4.1, in points (a), (d), and (e) in the following ways:
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AMD 98 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 182 (aa) solidarity projects; 11.12.2019:
EP to drop AMD 98
183 (a) volunteering, as referred to in
Article 11;
AMD 99 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 184 3a. On the basis of a prior 11.12.2019: assessment of needs in third countries, this Regulation shall EP ready to drop AMD 99 support actions aimed at since new para g) in art.
(a) strengthening humanitarian 10 (line 176) has been aid capacity in order to enhance included local preparedness and response to humanitarian crises and to ensure that volunteers' work has an effective and sustainable impact on the ground, including: (b) management of risks associated with natural disasters, preparedness and response, coaching, training in volunteer management, and other relevant areas for staff and volunteers from hosting organisations;
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(c) exchange of best practices, technical assistance, twinning programmes and exchange of staff and volunteers, creation of networks and other relevant actions.
Linked to line 233 185 (b) networking activities for individuals and organisations Subject to final outcome of participating in this strand in MFF negotiations as accordance with Article 5; regards inclusion of third
countries in the ESC programme
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(b) networking activities for individuals and organisations participating in this strand, [including those based in third countries], in accordance with Article 5;
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3b. The Commission shall 11.12.2019: continue, maintain and update the EU Aid Volunteers EP to drop AMD 100 database, regulate access thereto and use thereof, including with regard to the availability and suitability of EU Aid Volunteers, thus enabling the continued participation of returning volunteers. The processing of personal data collected in or for that database shall be carried out, where relevant, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council 1a and Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council 1b .
_____________ 1a Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive
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95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) ( OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1). 1b Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).
187 (c) quality and support measures in accordance with Article 5 with particular focus on measures to ensure safety and security of participants.
Article 11 188 Volunteering in support of humanitarian aid operations
AMD 101 Linked to lines 145 and 189 1. Volunteering in support of 1. Volunteering in support of 180 humanitarian aid operations as humanitarian aid operations
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referred to in Article 4.1, point (a) shall include adequate learning Compromise text, shall include a learning and and training, including before acceptable for Council training component, shall not the placement, linked to the except text in square substitute traineeships or jobs and projects in which young brackets (under scrutiny shall be based on a written volunteers will be involved, with by EP): volunteering agreement. due emphasis on the
humanitarian aid principles 1. Volunteering in support referred to in Article 10(2) and of humanitarian aid the ‘do no harm principle’, and operations as referred to in it shall not substitute Article 4(1)(a) shall traineeships or jobs and shall be (a) include a learning and based on a written volunteering training component, agreement. including on the principles set out in Article 10(2); (b) not substitute traineeships or jobs; and (c) be based on a written volunteering agreement [which sets out rights and obligations, the duration and location of the deployment and a task description].
AMD 102 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 190 1a. The EU Aid Volunteers 11.12.2019: initiative shall foster the participation of local volunteers EP to drop AMD 102. from third countries.
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AMD 103 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 191 2. Volunteering under this strand 2. Volunteering under this strand 2. Volunteering under this 11.12.2019: may only take place in third may only take place: strand may only take place in countries: those regions of third EP can accept Council text
countries:
AMD 104 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 192 2a. On the basis of a prior 11.12.2019: assessment of the needs in third countries by sending and EP to drop AMD 104 hosting organisations, and other relevant actors, the
European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps shall support actions aimed at:
(a) strengthening the hosting organisations' capacity for humanitarian aid in third countries in order to enhance local preparedness and response to humanitarian crises and to ensure the effective and sustainable impact of the European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps’ work on the ground through disaster risk management, preparedness and response, the transition
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from humanitarian response to sustainable local development, coaching, and training in volunteer management;
(b) the exchange of best practices, technical assistance, twinning programmes and the exchange of staff and volunteers.
AMD 105 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 193 2b. Assessing the level of risk 11.12.2019: with regard to the safety and security of volunteers shall be a EP to drop AMD 105 priority, in particular in countries or areas considered to be unstable or where there are immediate risks.
AMD 106 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 194 2c. Communication campaigns 11.12.2019: on the European Solidarity
Corps pertaining to the EU Aid EP to drop AMD 106 Volunteers initiative shall be carried out primarily on the territory of the Union and shall focus on work undertaken by volunteers and humanitarian aid workers under the
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humanitarian aid principles of humanity, independence, neutrality and impartiality that inform their actions.
AM 107 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 195 2d. Volunteering shall meet the 11.12.2019: real needs and gaps identified at local level by the host EP to drop AMD 107 organisations.
196 (a) where humanitarian aid activities and operations take place; and
197 (b) where there are no ongoing international or non-international armed conflicts.
AMD 108 198
Article 11a Identification and selection of
candidate volunteers
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identify and select candidate volunteers for training in cooperation with national agencies and host organisations.
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Article 11b Training of candidate
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programmes and procedures, 109, insofar as it be
the Commission shall establish covered in lines 145 and
a training programme to 189
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202 CHAPTER V
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS 203 Article 12 204 Budget
AMD 110 205 1. The financial envelope for the 1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Programme implementation of the for the period 2021-2027 shall be Programme for the period 2021-
EUR 1 260 000 000 in current 2027 shall be EUR 1 112 988 prices. 000 in 2018 prices [EUR 1 260
000 000 in current prices].
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support to the actions EP cannot accept referred to in points (a), (b) "maximum" as referred to and (c) of Article 4.1 shall be the 6% for HA - indicatively 86% for volunteering volunteering referred to in Article 7 and solidarity Compromise text to be projects, further discussed - indicatively 8% for either traineeships or jobs, or both, 1a. (new) With a and maximum of 20% for in- a maximum of 6% for country activities the volunteering referred to in financial support to the Article 11. actions referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 4.1 shall be - indicatively 86% for volunteering referred to in Article 7 and solidarity projects, - indicatively 8% for either traineeships or jobs, or both, and - [a maximum of] [indicatively] 6% for volunteering referred to in Article 11.
AMD 111 207 2. The amount referred to in 2. The amount referred to in
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paragraph 1 may be used for paragraph 1 may be used for technical and administrative technical and administrative assistance for the implementation assistance for the of the Programme, such as implementation of the preparatory, monitoring, control, Programme, such as preparatory, audit and evaluation activities, monitoring, control, audit and including corporate information evaluation activities, including technology systems. corporate information
technology systems. An adequate amount of the budget shall also be dedicated to the exchange of best practices among Member States and the development of youth networks.
AM 112 208 2a. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 29 to amend this
Regulation to allow for flexibility and adaptation of the indicative budgetary breakdown by activities under Article 12a. The delegated acts adopted under this Article shall reflect the new political priorities by readjusting the breakdown respecting a maximum margin of 20 %.
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209 3. Without prejudice to the
Financial Regulation, expenditure for actions resulting from projects included in the first work programme may be eligible as from
1 January 2021.
210 4. Resources allocated to Member
States under shared management may, at their request, be transferred to the Programme. The
Commission shall implement those resources directly in accordance with [point (a) of Article 62.1] of the Financial Regulation or indirectly in accordance with [point
(c) of that Article]. Where possible those resources shall be used for the benefit of the Member State concerned.
AM 113 211 Article 12a
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(a) for volunteering in solidarity activities and solidarity projects, as specified in Articles 7 and 9: 86 %;
(b) for traineeships and jobs, as specified in Article 8: 8 %; and
(c) for volunteering in support of humanitarian aid operations, as specified in Article 11: 6 %.
Article 13 213 Forms of EU funding and methods
of implementation 214
1.The Programme shall be implemented in a consistent manner in direct management in accordance with the Financial
Regulation and in indirect management with bodies referred to in Article [62.1, point (c)] of the
Financial Regulation.
AMD 114 Horizontal issue to be 215 2.The Programme may provide 2. The Programme may provide discussed in the context of funding in any of the forms laid funding in any of the forms laid Erasmus+
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down in the Financial Regulation, down in the Financial in particular grants, prizes and Regulation, in particular grants, procurement. prizes and procurement. In
order to simplify requirements for beneficiaries, lump sums, unit costs and flat-rate funding shall be used to the maximum possible extent.
216 3. Contributions to a mutual insurance mechanism may cover the risk associated with the recovery of funds due by recipients and shall be considered a sufficient guarantee under the Financial
Regulation. The provisions laid down in [Article X of] Regulation
XXX [successor of the Regulation on the Guarantee Fund] shall apply.
217 4. For selections under both direct and indirect management, the evaluation committee may be composed of external experts.
218 CHAPTER VI
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PARTICIPATION IN THE 219 EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS
Article 14 220 Participating countries
221 1. Volunteering, traineeships, jobs, solidarity projects, networking activities and quality and support measures as referred to in Articles
5, 7, 8, 9 and 11 shall be open to the participation of the Member
States and overseas countries and territories.
222 2. Volunteering, networking activities and quality and support measures as referred to in Articles
5 and 7 shall also be open to the participation of:
223 (a) members of the European Free
Trade Association, which are members of the European
Economic Area (EEA), in accordance with the conditions laid down in the European Economic
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224 (b) acceding countries, candidates and potential candidates, in accordance with the general principles and general terms and conditions for the participation of those countries in Union programmes established in the respective framework agreements and Association Council decisions, or similar agreements, and in accordance with the specific conditions laid down in agreements between the Union and those countries;
225 (c) countries covered by the
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conditions laid down in agreements between the Union and those countries;
226 (d) other third countries, in accordance with the conditions laid down in a specific agreement covering the participation of the third country to any Union programme, provided that the agreement:
227 – ensures a fair balance as regards the contributions and benefits of the third country participating in the Union programmes;
228 – lays down the conditions of participation in the programmes, including the calculation of financial contributions to individual programmes and their administrative costs. These contributions shall constitute assigned revenues in accordance with Article [21(5)] of the
Financial Regulation;
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229 – does not confer to the third country a decisional power on the programme;
230 – guarantees the rights of the
Union to ensure sound financial management and to protect its financial interests.
231 3. The countries referred to in paragraph 2 shall fully take part in the Programme only insofar as they fulfil all the obligations which this
Regulation imposes on Member
States.
AMD 115 232 3a. The financial contributions made by and expected from third countries to the
Programme shall, once sufficient information is available, be reported to both arms of the budgetary authority as part of the annual or interim reporting of the Programme.
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233 4. Volunteering and networking actions as referred to in Articles 5 and 7 may be open to participation of any third country not associated to the programme, in particular neighbourhood countries.
Article 15 234 Participation of individuals
235 Young people aged 17 to 30 years willing to participate in the
European Solidarity Corps shall register in the European Solidarity
Corps Portal. However, at the moment of commencing volunteering, traineeship, job or a solidarity project a young person shall be at least 18 years of age and not older than 30.
AMD 116 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 236 1a. Participants moving to 11.12.2019: another country shall be guaranteed the full health care EP to drop AMD 116 they enjoy in their Member
State of residence, not merely urgent health care. Health care shall be provided both through
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the public health services of the Member State in which the activity is carried out and, in the absence of such services or in the event of a clear case of non-compliance with the quality standards of the Member State of residence, through private health services in the Member State in which the activity is carried out.
AMD 117 Similar text as in PGA 237 1b. When implementing this (line 238). Covered by EP
Regulation, the Commission, proposal for inclusion the Members States and other (article 15b), and linked to participating countries shall lines 130, 138 and 143 promote social inclusion and equal access conditions, Council considers that a including for the participation new article is not of young people with fewer necessary. In particular: opportunities. - Art. 15a (1) is both EP AMD 237 and the PGA, so it is acceptable for both - Art 15a (2) is not acceptable for Council. - Art 15a (3) could be acceptable for Council if added to Art 15 as new
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EP proposal for new art. 15a:
[Article 15a (Lines 237/238)
Inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities
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fewer opportunities, as well as guidance for their implementation, which shall be updated as necessary over the duration of the Programme. Based on that framework, and with particular attention to the specific Programme access challenges within the national contexts, inclusion action plans shall be developed and form an integral part of the national agencies’ work programmes; their implementation shall be monitored on a regular basis by the Commission.]
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Similar text as in EP AMD 238 2.(new) When implementing 117 (line 237), also this Regulation, the included in EP proposal
Commission, the Member for new Art. 15a States and other participating countries shall Linked to EP proposal for ensure that specific and inclusion (article 15b), effective measures are taken and to lines 130, 138 and to promote social inclusion 143 and equal access conditions, in particular for the participation of young people with fewer opportunities.
Article 16 239 Participating organisations
AMD 118 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 240 1. The European Solidarity Corps 1. The European Solidarity 1. The European Solidarity 12.11.2019: shall be open to the participation of Corps shall be open to the Corps shall be open to the public or private entities and participation of public or private participation of public or 1. The European international organisations, entities, whether non-profit or private entities and Solidarity Corps shall be provided that they have received a profit making, and international international organisations, open to the participation
European Solidarity Corps quality organisations, including youth whether non-profit or profitof public or private label. organisations, religious making, provided that they entities, whether non
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institutions, charity have received a European profit or profit-making, associations, secular Solidarity Corps quality label. and international humanistic organisations, organisations, provided NGOs or other actors from civil that they have received a society, provided that they offer European Solidarity Corps solidarity activities, that they quality label. have legal personality under the law of the country in which they are registered and provided that they have received a European Solidarity Corps quality label. The quality label shall certify that the activities can meet the objectives under Article 3 and provide the actions under Article 4.
AMD 119 Linked to lines 35 and 145 241 2. An application from an entity to 2. An application from an entity become a European Solidarity to become a European Solidarity Compromise text
Corps participating organisation Corps participating organisation acceptable for Council shall be assessed by the competent shall be assessed by the (except the new text in implementing body of the competent implementing body square brackets, submitted
European Solidarity Corps on the of the European Solidarity Corps by EP on 10.12.2019): basis of the principles of equal on the basis of the principles of treatment; equal opportunities and equal treatment; equal 2. An application from an non-discrimination; avoidance of opportunities and nonentity to become a job substitution; provision of high discrimination; avoidance of job European Solidarity Corps quality activities with learning substitution; provision of high participating organisation dimension focusing on personal, quality, easily accessible and shall be assessed by the
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socio-educational and professional inclusive activities with clear competent implementing development; adequate training, added value for identified body of the European working and volunteering community needs, a learning Solidarity Corps on the arrangements; safe and decent dimension focusing on personal, basis of the principles of environment and conditions; and socio-educational and equal treatment; equal the 'no-profit principle' in professional development; opportunities and noncompliance with the Financial adequate training, working and discrimination; avoidance
Regulation. The above principles volunteering arrangements; safe of job substitution; ascertain whether its activities meet and decent environment and avoidance of harmful the requirements of the European conditions; and the 'no-profit activities; provision of
Solidarity Corps. principle' in compliance with the high quality, easily
Financial Regulation. The above accessible and inclusive principles ascertain whether its activities with learning activities meet the requirements dimension focusing on and objectives of the European personal, socio Solidarity Corps. The quality educational and label shall only be attributed to professional development; organisations committing to adequate training, working comply with these principles. and volunteering arrangements; safe and decent environment and conditions, with internal mechanisms for conflict resolution [, including the necessary safeguards to ensure the protection, safety and wellbeing of the participant,] to protect the participant; and the 'no-profit principle' in
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compliance with the Financial Regulation. The above principles ascertain whether its activities meet the requirements and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.
AMD 120 EP insists on keeping 242 3. As a result of the assessment the 3. As a result of the assessment AMD 120 for the time entity may be attributed the the entity may be attributed the being.
European Solidarity Corps quality European Solidarity Corps label. The obtained label shall be quality label. The specific Compromise proposal to re-assessed periodically and may requirements to be fulfilled in be further discussed: be revoked. order to obtain a quality label
shall vary depending on the Drop EP AMD 120, since type of solidarity activity and contents have been the function of the entity. The incorporated in line 44 obtained label shall be reassessed periodically and in the event that the label is misused or of failure to comply with the principles set out in paragraph 2, the label shall be revoked. Any entity which substantially changes its activities shall inform the competent implementing body for reassessment.
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4.Any entity which has received the European Solidarity Corps quality label shall be given access to the European Solidarity Corps
Portal in the role of a host function, in a support function, or both, and shall be able to make offers for solidarity activities to registered candidates.
AMD 121 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 244 4a. Participating organisations 12.11.2019: that have been attributed a quality label shall have access EP ready to drop AMD to a platform to easily search 121 for suitable applicants in order to make the process easier for both participants and participating organisations to engage in solidarity activities.
AMD 122 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 245 4b. Participating organisations 11.12.2019: shall facilitate the promotion of the Programme by offering EP to drop AMD 122 former participants the possibility to share their experiences and act as ambassadors to the potential next generation of participants
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246 5. The European Solidarity Corps quality label shall not automatically lead to funding under the European Solidarity Corps.
AM 123 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 247 5a. Participating organisations 12.11.2019: shall perform several functions in the framework of the EP to drop AMD 123
European Solidarity Corps. In a host function they shall carry out activities related to making offers for solidarity activities to registered participants, selecting and receiving the participants, including the organisation of activities, providing guidance and support to participants during all the phases of the solidarity activity, providing a safe and convenient working environment for participants, and providing feedback to the participant after the activity, as appropriate. In a support function they shall
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carry out activities in relation to the sending, the preparation and the support of participants before departure, and during and after the solidarity activity, including training participants and guiding them to local organisations after the activity. Organisations in a support function can also provide administrative and logistical support to participants in solidarity projects.
248 6. The solidarity activities and related quality and support measures offered by a participating organisation may receive funding under the European Solidarity
Corps or from other funding sources which do not depend on the Union budget.
AGREED AT TRILOGUE 249 7. For organisations participating in 11.12.2019: the context of activities as referred to in Article 11 the safety and 7. For organisations security of volunteers shall be a participating in the context priority. of activities as referred to
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Article 17 250 Access to the European Solidarity
Corps funding AMD 124 Linked to lines 43, 300 and 251
Any public or private entity Any public or private entity 301 established in a participating established in a participating country as well as international country as well as international To be aligned with organisations may apply for organisations may apply for Erasmus+ funding under the European funding under the European
Solidarity Corps. In the case of the Solidarity Corps. In the case of Compromise text to be activities referred to in Articles 7, 8 the activities referred to in further discussed: and 11, a quality label shall be Articles 7, 8 and 11, a quality obtained by the participating label shall be obtained by the Any public or private organisation as a pre-condition for participating organisation as a entity established in a receiving funding under the pre-condition for receiving participating country as
European Solidarity Corps. In the funding under the European well as international case of the solidarity projects Solidarity Corps. In the case of organisations may apply referred to Article 9, natural the solidarity projects referred to for funding under the persons may also apply for funding Article 9, natural persons may European Solidarity Corps. on behalf of informal groups of also apply for funding on behalf In the case of the activities
European Solidarity Corps of informal groups of European referred to in Articles 7, 8 participants. Solidarity Corps participants. As and 11, a quality label
a general rule, the grant shall be obtained by the request shall be submitted to the participating organisation
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national agency of the country as a pre-condition for in which the organisation is receiving funding under based. Grant requests for the European Solidarity activities organised by Europe Corps. In the case of the wide or international solidarity projects referred organisations, activities of to Article 9, natural volunteering teams in priority persons may also apply for fields identified at European funding on behalf of level and activities in support of informal groups of humanitarian aid operations in European Solidarity Corps third countries shall be participants. As a general submitted to the EACEA. rule, the grant request shall be submitted to the national agency of the country in which the organisation is based.
CHAPTER VII 252 PROGRAMMING, MONITORING 253 AND EVALUATION
Article 18 AMD 125 254 Work programme Annual work programme
AMD 126 Horizontal issue to be 255 The secondary policy choices aligned with Erasmus+ and priorities, including details of specific actions outlined in
Articles 4 to 11, shall be determined on an annual basis through a work programme as referred to in Article [110] of
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the Financial Regulation. The annual work programme shall also set out details concerning the implementation of the Programme. In addition, the work programme shall give an indication of the amount allocated to each action and of the distribution of funds between the Member States and third countries associated to the Programme for the actions to be managed through the national agency. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 29 to supplement this Regulation by adopting annual work programmes.
256 The Programme shall be implemented by work programmes referred to in [Article 110] of the
Financial Regulation. In addition, the work programme shall give an indication of the amount allocated to each action and of the distribution of funds between the
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Member States and third countries associated to the Programme for the actions to be managed through the national agency. The work programme shall be adopted by the
Commission by means of an implementing act. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 30.
Article 19 257 Monitoring and reporting
258 1. Indicators to report on the progress of the Programme towards the achievement of the general and specific objectives laid down in
Article 3 are set out in the Annex.
259 2. To ensure effective assessment of the Programme towards the achievement of its objectives, the
Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 29 to amend the Annex to review or complement the indicators, where considered necessary and to
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supplement this Regulation with provisions on the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation framework.
260 3. The performance reporting system shall ensure that data for monitoring Programme implementation and evaluation are collected efficiently, effectively, in a timely manner and at the appropriate level of detail by beneficiaries of Union funds within the meaning of Article [2.5] of the
Financial Regulation. To that end, proportionate reporting requirements shall be imposed on beneficiaries of Union funds and
Member States.
Article 20 261 Evaluation
262 1. Evaluations shall be carried out in a timely manner to feed into the decision-making process.
AMD 127 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 263 2. The interim evaluation of the 2. The mid-term review of the 2. The interim evaluation of the 11.12.2019:
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Programme shall be performed Programme shall be performed Programme shall be performed once there is sufficient information once there is sufficient once there is sufficient 2. The interim evaluation available about the implementation information available about the information available about the of the Programme shall be of the Programme, but no later than implementation of the implementation of the performed once there is four years after the start of the Programme. The Commission Programme, but no later than sufficient information programme implementation. It shall submit the mid-term four years after the start of the available about the shall also be accompanied by a review to the European programme implementation [, implementation of the final evaluation of the predecessor Parliament, to the Council, to by 31 December 2024]. It Programme, but no later programme. the European Economic and shall also be accompanied by a than four years after the
Social Committee and to the final evaluation of the start of the programme Committee of the Regions no predecessor programme. implementation [, by 31 later than 30 June 2024. It shall December 2024]. It shall also be accompanied by a final also be accompanied by a evaluation of the predecessor final evaluation of the programme. predecessor programme, which shall feed into the interim evaluation. The interim evaluation of the Programme shall assess the overall effectiveness and performance of the Programme, as well as the delivery of the inclusion measures.
AGREED AT TRILOGUE 264 3. Without prejudice to the 11.12.2019: requirements set out in Chapter IX and the obligations of national 3. Without prejudice to the agencies as referred to in Article requirements set out in
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23, Member States shall submit to Chapter IX and the the Commission, by 30 April 2024, obligations of national a report on the implementation and agencies as referred to in the impact of the Programme in Article 23, Member States their respective territories. shall submit to the
Commission, by 31 May 2024, a report on the implementation and the impact of the Programme in their respective territories.
AMD 128 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 265 3a. The Commission shall, 11.12.2019: where necessary and on the basis of the mid-term review 3a. Where appropriate, and implementation reports and on the basis of the submitted by Member States, interim evaluation, the submit legislative proposals for Commission shall put the amendment of this forward a legislative
Regulation. The Commission proposal to amend this shall appear before the Regulation competent committees of the European Parliament to report on the mid-term review, including with respect to its decision as to whether it is necessary to amend this Regulation.
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AGREED AT TRILOGUE 266 4. At the end of the implementation 4. At the end of the 11.12.2019: of the Programme, but no later than implementation of the four years after the end of the Programme, but no later than 4. At the end of the period specified in Article 1, a final four years after the end of the implementation of the evaluation of the Programme shall period specified in Article 1, a Programme, but no later be carried out by the Commission. final evaluation on the results than four years after the
and impact of the Programme end of the period specified shall be carried out by the in Article 1 [by 31 Commission. December 2031], a final evaluation on the results and impact of the Programme shall be carried out by the Commission. AGREED AT TRILOGUE 267
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5.The Commission shall 5. The Commission shall 11.12.2019: communicate the conclusions of communicate the results of the the evaluations accompanied by its evaluations accompanied by its 5. The Commission shall observations, to the European observations, to the European transmit any evaluations,
Parliament, the Council, the Parliament, the Council, the including the interim
European Economic and Social European Economic and Social evaluation, accompanied
Committee and the Committee of Committee and the Committee by its observations to the the Regions. of the Regions. European Parliament, the
Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions.
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INFORMATION, 269 COMMUNICATION AND
DISSEMINATION
Article 21 270 Information, communication and
dissemination AMD 129 Horizontal provision to be 271
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1.The recipients of Union funding 1. The recipients of Union aligned with Erasmus+ shall acknowledge the origin and funding shall acknowledge the ensure the visibility of the Union origin thereof and ensure the funding, in particular when visibility of the Union funding promoting the actions and their (in particular when promoting results, by providing coherent, the actions and their results) by effective and proportionate targeted providing prompt, coherent, information to multiple audiences, effective and proportionate including the media and the public. targeted information to multiple
audiences, including, the media and the public. AMD 130 Horizontal provision to be 272
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AMD 131 Horizontal provision to be 273 3. The national agencies referred to 3. The national agencies referred aligned with Erasmus+ in Article 23 shall develop a to in Article 23 shall develop a consistent strategy with regard to consistent strategy with regard to the effective outreach as well as information and the effective dissemination and exploitation of outreach, as well as results of activities supported under dissemination to all potential the actions they manage within the beneficiaries and exploitation of
Programme, shall assist the results of activities supported
Commission in its general task of under the actions they manage disseminating information within the Programme, shall concerning the Programme, assist the Commission in its including information in respect of general task of disseminating actions and activities managed at information concerning the national and Union level, and its Programme, including results, and shall inform relevant information in respect of actions target groups about the actions and and activities managed at activities undertaken in their national and Union level, and its country. results, and shall inform relevant
target groups about the actions and activities undertaken in their country.
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3a. Participating organisations for the ESC similar to shall use the brand name Erasmus+ (for instance, “European Solidarity Corps” "Odysseus" or "Ulysses") for the purposes of and might make a communication and proposal at the Trilogue dissemination of information related to the Programme. Council cannot accept a different brand name, since it's not an issue stemming from the EP AMD 132 or the PGA
Compromise text acceptable for Council:
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CHAPTER IX 275 MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT 276
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278 In each country participating in the
European Solidarity Corps, the national authorities designated for the management of actions referred to in Chapter III of [New Erasmus
Regulation] shall also act as national authorities in the framework of the European
Solidarity Corps. Paragraphs 1, 2,
6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of
Article 23 of [New Erasmus
Regulation] shall apply to the
European Solidarity Corps by analogy.
Article 23 279 National agency
EP can accept Council text 280 1. In each country participating in 1. In each country participating the European Solidarity Corps, the in the European Solidarity Horizontal provision to be national agencies designated for Corps, the national agencies aligned with Erasmus+ the management of the actions designated for the management referred to in Chapter III of [New of the actions referred to in
Erasmus Regulation] in their Chapter III of [New Erasmus respective countries shall also act Regulation] in their respective as national agencies in the countries shall also act as framework of the European national agencies in the
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2, 3, 4, 5 […], 6 and 7 of Article 24 of [New Erasmus Regulation] shall apply to the European Solidarity Corps by analogy.
281 Paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of
Article 24 of [New Erasmus
Regulation] shall apply to the
European Solidarity Corps by analogy.
282 2. Without prejudice to Article 24.2 of [New Erasmus Regulation], the national agency shall also be responsible for managing all stages of the project lifecycle of those actions of the European Solidarity
Corps listed in the implementing acts referred to in Article 18, in accordance with points [(c)(v) and
(vi) of Article 62.1] of the
Financial Regulation.
EP can accept Council text 283 3. For countries referred to in 3. For countries referred to in
Article 14.2 of this Regulation, Article 14.2 of this Regulation, Horizontal provision to be
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where a national agency is not where a national agency is not aligned with Erasmus+ designated for that country, it shall designated for that country, it be established in accordance with shall be established in paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of accordance with paragraphs 1,
Article 24 of [New Erasmus 2, 3, 4, 5 […], 6 and 7 of
Regulation]. Article 24 of [New Erasmus
Regulation].
AMD 133 Horizontal provision to be 284 3a. The national agency shall aligned with Erasmus+ regularly consult the beneficiaries of the Programme
(individuals and organisations) in order to collect their feedback on the Programme, to assess the quality of the activity, and how the activity evolves, on the basis of Commission guidelines and shall provide support to participants in the event of difficulties and in order to improve the implementation of the Programme at national level based on their feedback and expertise.
Article 24 285 European Commission
286 1. The rules applying to the
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Commission and a national agency shall be laid down, in accordance with the rules in Article 24 of [New
Erasmus Regulation], in a written document which shall:
AMD 134 287 (a) lay down the internal control (a) lay down the internal control standards for the national agency standards for the national agency concerned and the rules for the concerned and the rules for the management of the Union funds for management of the Union funds grant support by the national for grant support by the national agencies; agencies, taking into
consideration the simplification requirements and not imposing additional burden on participants and participating organisations;
288 (b) include the national agency work programme comprising the management tasks of the national agency to which Union support is provided;
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290 (c) specify the reporting requirements for the national agency.
AMD 136 Horizontal provision to be 291 1a. The Commission shall aligned with Erasmus+ organise regular meetings on the implementation of the
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292 2. The Commission shall each year make the following funds available to the national agency:
293 (a) funds for grant support in the participating country concerned for the actions of the European
Solidarity Corps the management of which is entrusted to the national agency;
294 (b) a financial contribution in support of the management tasks of the national agency defined in accordance with the modalities set out in point (b) of Article 25.3 of
[New Erasmus Regulation].
295 3. The Commission shall lay down the requirements for the national agency work programme. The
Commission shall not make
European Solidarity Corps funds available to the national agency
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before having formally approved the national agency’s work programme.
296 4. On the basis of the compliance requirements for national agencies referred to in Article 23.3 of [New
Erasmus Regulation], the
Commission shall review the national management and control systems, the national agency’s management declaration and the opinion of the independent audit body thereon, taking due account of the information provided by the national authority on its monitoring and supervision activities with regard to the European Solidarity
Corps.
297 5. After assessing the yearly management declaration and the opinion of the independent audit body thereon, the Commission shall address its opinion and observations to the national agency and the national authority.
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AMD 137 Similar EP and Council 298 5a. Where the Commission texts in lines 298 and 299 cannot accept the yearly management declaration or the Reference to Art 131(3)(c) independent audit opinion of the Financial thereon, or in the event of Regulation is politically unsatisfactory implementation important for the EP by the national agency of the
Commission’s observations, the Horizontal provision to be Commission may implement aligned with Erasmus+ any precautionary and corrective measures necessary to safeguard the Union’s financial interests in accordance with point (c) of Article 131(3) of the Financial Regulation.
Similar EP and Council 299 6.(new) In the event that the texts in lines 298 and 299
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implement any precautionary and corrective measures necessary to safeguard the Union's financial interests in accordance with Article [60(4)] of the Financial Regulation.
AMD 138 Linked to line 251 300
Article 24a
Education,Audiovisual and Horizontal issue
Culture Executive Agency
Council cannot accept
AMD 138
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At Union level, the EACEA
shall be responsible for
managing all stages of the
grant for the Programme’s
project actions, as listed in
Article 7, submitted by Europewide
or platform organisations,
for activities of volunteering
teams in priority fields
identified at European level and
activities in support of
humanitarian aid operations in
third countries.
EACEA shall also be
responsible for the
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accreditation (i.e. quality label) and monitoring of Europe-wide or platform organisations, organisations in charge of implementing national schemes or Union shared management funds and organisations wishing to carry out activities supporting humanitarian aid operations.
Article 25 302 Audits
AMD 139 Horizontal provision to be 303 1. Audits on the use of the Union 1. Audits on the use of the aligned with Erasmus+ contribution carried out by persons Union contribution carried out or entities, including by others than by persons or entities, including those mandated by the Union by others than those mandated
Institutions or bodies, shall form by the Union institutions or the basis of the overall assurance bodies, shall form the basis of pursuant to [Article 127] of the the overall assurance pursuant to
Financial Regulation. Article [127] of the Financial
Regulation and shall be carried out in accordance with the same criteria in all Member States.
304 2. The national authority shall designate an independent audit
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body. The independent audit body shall issue an audit opinion on the management declaration referred to in [Article 155.1] of the Financial
Regulation.
305 3.The independent audit body shall:
306 (a) have the necessary professional competence to carry out public sector audits;
307 (b) ensure that its audits take account of internationally accepted audit standards; and
308 (c) not be in a position of conflict of interest with regard to the legal entity of which the national agency referred to in Article 23 forms part and be independent, in terms of its functions, of the legal entity of which the national agency forms part.
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309 4. The independent audit body shall give the Commission and its representatives, as well as the
Court of Auditors, full access to all documents and reports in support of the audit opinion that it issues on the national agency’s management declaration.
CHAPTER X 310 CONTROL SYSTEM 311
Article 26 312 Principles of the control system
313 1.The Commission shall be responsible for the supervisory controls with regard to the
European Solidarity Corps actions managed by the national agencies.
It shall set the minimum requirements for the controls by the national agency and the independent audit body.
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Solidarity Corps which are Solidarity Corps which are entrusted to them. Those controls entrusted to them. Those shall give reasonable assurance that controls shall be proportionate the grants awarded are used as and adequate and shall give intended and in compliance with reasonable assurance that the the applicable Union rules. grants awarded are used as
intended and in compliance with the applicable Union rules.
315 3. With regard to the funds transferred to the national agencies, the Commission shall ensure proper coordination of its controls with the national authorities and the national agencies, on the basis of the single audit principle and following a risk-based analysis.
This provision shall not apply to investigations carried out by the
European Anti-Fraud Office
(‘OLAF’).
Article 27 316 Protection of the financial interests
of the Union 317
Where a third country participates in the programme by a decision
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under an international agreement or by virtue of any other legal instrument, the third country shall grant the necessary rights and access required for the authorizing officer responsible, the European
Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), the
European Court of Auditors to comprehensively exert their respective competences. In the case of OLAF, such rights shall include the right to carry out investigations, including on-the-spot checks and inspections, provided for in
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No
883/2013 of the European
Parliament and of the Council concerning investigations conducted by the European Anti
Fraud Office (OLAF).
CHAPTER XI 318 COMPLEMENTARITY 319
Article 28 320 Complementarity of Union action
AMD 141 Horizontal provision to be 321 1. The actions of the European 1. The actions of the European aligned with Erasmus+
Solidarity Corps shall be consistent Solidarity Corps shall be with and complementary to the consistent with and EP ready to drop AMD relevant policies, instruments and complementary to the relevant 141 provided that text be
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programmes at Union level, in policies, instruments and aligned with Erasmus+ particular the Erasmus programme, programmes at Union level, in as well as to existing networks at particular the Erasmus Linked to line 326
Union level relevant to the programme, the European activities of the European Structural and Investment
Solidarity Corps. Funds (ESIF) and Rights and
Values Programme, as well as to existing networks at Union level relevant to the activities of the European Solidarity Corps.
AMD 142 Horizontal provision to be 322 2. The actions of the European 2. The actions of the European 2. The actions of the European aligned with Erasmus+
Solidarity Corps shall also be Solidarity Corps shall not Solidarity Corps shall also not consistent with and complementary substitute and shall be substitute but be consistent Compromise text (new text to the relevant policies, consistent with and with and complementary to the to be decided by Juristprogrammes and instruments at complementary to the relevant relevant policies, programmes Linguists): national level in the participating policies, programmes and and instruments at national 2. The actions of the countries. To this end, the instruments at national, regional level in the participating European Solidarity Corps
Commission, national authorities and local level in the countries. To this end, the shall also not substitute and national agencies shall participating countries. To this Commission, national [but][and shall] be exchange information on existing end, the Commission, national authorities and national consistent with and national schemes and priorities authorities and national agencies agencies shall exchange complementary to the related to solidarity and youth, on shall exchange information on information on existing relevant policies, the one hand, and actions under the existing national schemes and national schemes and priorities programmes and
European Solidarity Corps, on the priorities related to solidarity related to solidarity and youth, instruments at national other hand, with a view to build on and youth, on the one hand, and on the one hand, and actions level in the participating relevant good practices and achieve actions under the European under the European Solidarity countries. To this end, the efficiency and effectiveness. Solidarity Corps, on the other Corps, on the other hand, with Commission, national
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relevant good practices and good practices and achieve agencies shall exchange achieve efficiency and efficiency and effectiveness. information on existing effectiveness. national schemes and priorities related to solidarity and youth, on the one hand, and actions under the European Solidarity Corps, on the other hand, with a view to build on relevant good practices and achieve efficiency and effectiveness.
AMD 143 Horizontal provision to be 323 2a. In order to maximise the aligned with Erasmus+ effectiveness of Union funding and the impact of the Linked to line 35
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implementation level accompanied by relevant implementation guidelines.
AMD 144 AGREED AT TRILOGUE 324 3. The actions of the European 3. The actions of the European 11.12.2019:
Solidarity Corps in third countries Solidarity Corps in third referred to in Article 11 shall be in countries referred to in Article EP to drop AMD 144 particular consistent with and 11 shall be in particular complementary to other areas of consistent with and
Union external action, in particular complementary to other areas of humanitarian aid policy, Union external action, in development cooperation policy, particular humanitarian aid enlargement policy, neighbourhood policy, development cooperation policy and the Union Civil policy, security policy,
Protection Mechanism. enlargement policy, neighbourhood policy and the Union Civil Protection Mechanism.
325 4. An action that has received a contribution from the Programme may also receive a contribution from any other Union programme, provided that the contributions do not cover the same costs. The rules of each contributing Union programme shall apply to its respective contribution to the
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action. The cumulative funding shall not exceed the total eligible costs of the action and the support from the different Union programmes may be calculated on a pro-rata basis in accordance with the documents setting out the conditions for support.
326 5. Where the Programme and the
European Structural and
Investment (ESI) Funds referred to in Article 1 of [Regulation (EU)XX
CPR] provide jointly financial support to a single action, that action shall be implemented in accordance with the rules set out in this Regulation, including rules on recovery of amounts unduly paid.
327 6. Actions eligible under the
Programme which have been assessed in a call for proposals under the Programme and which comply with the minimum quality requirements of that call for proposals, but which are not financed due to budgetary constraints, may receive support
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from the European Regional
Development Fund, the Cohesion
Fund, the European Social Fund+ or the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, in accordance with paragraph 7 of
Article [65] of Regulation (EU)
XX [Common Provisions
Regulation] and Article [8] or
Regulation (EU) XX [Financing, management and monitoring of the
Common Agricultural Policy], provided that such actions are consistent with the objectives of the programme concerned. The rules of the Fund providing support shall apply.
CHAPTER XII 328 329
TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 29 330 Exercise of the delegation
331 1. The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the
Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this
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Article.
AMD 145 332 2. The power to adopt delegated 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 19 shall acts referred to in Articles 12, 18 be conferred on the Commission and 19 shall be conferred on the for the duration of the Programme. Commission for the duration of
the Programme.
AMD 146 333 3. The delegation of power referred 3. The delegation of power to in Article 19 may be revoked at referred to in Articles 12, 18 and any time by the European 19 may be revoked at any time
Parliament or by the Council. A by the European Parliament or decision to revoke shall put an end by the Council. A decision to to the delegation of the power revoke shall put an end to the specified in that decision. It shall delegation of the power take effect the day following the specified in that decision. It shall publication of the decision in the take effect the day following the
Official Journal of the European publication of the decision in the
Union or at a later date specified Official Journal of the European therein. It shall not affect the Union or at a later date specified validity of any delegated acts therein. It shall not affect the already in force. validity of any delegated acts
already in force.
334 4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each
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Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the
Interinstitutional Agreement on
Better Law-Making of
13 April 2016.
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5.As soon as it adopts a delegated 335 act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European
Parliament and to the Council.
AMD 147 336 6. A delegated act adopted 6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 19 shall enter pursuant to Articles 12, 18 and into force only if no objection has 19 shall enter into force only if been expressed either by the no objection has been expressed
European Parliament or the either by the European
Council within a period of two Parliament or the Council within months of notification of that act to a period of two months of the European Parliament and the notification of that act to the
Council or if, before the expiry of European Parliament and the that period, the European Council or if, before the expiry
Parliament and the Council have of that period, the European both informed the Commission that Parliament and the Council have they will not object. That period both informed the Commission shall be extended by two months at that they will not object. That the initiative of the European period shall be extended by two
Parliament or of the Council. months at the initiative of the
European Parliament or of the Council.
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Article 30 337 Committee procedure
338 1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No
182/2011.
339 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation
(EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
Article 31 340 Repeal
341 Regulation (EU) [European
Solidarity Corps Regulation] and
Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i are repealed with effect from
1 January 2021.
Article 32 342 Transitional provisions
343 1. This Regulation shall not affect the continuation or modification of the actions concerned, until their closure, under [European Solidarity
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Corps Regulation] or under
Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i.
Those Regulations shall continue to apply to those actions until their closure.
344 2. The financial envelope for the
Programme may also cover technical and administrative assistance expenses necessary to ensure the transition between the
Programme and the measures adopted under [European Solidarity
Corps Regulation] or under
Regulation (EU) No 375/2014 i.
345 3. If necessary, appropriations may be entered in the budget beyond
2027 to cover the expenses provided for in Article 12.2, to enable the management of actions and activities not completed by
31 December 2027.
346 4. Member States shall ensure at national level the unimpeded transition between the actions
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carried out in the context of the
European Solidarity Corps
Programme (2018-2020) and those to be implemented under this
Programme.
Article 33 347 Entry into force
348
This Regulation shall enter into force on the [twentieth] day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Union.
349 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
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Done at Brussels, 350
For the European Parliament
The President
351 For the Council
The President
ANNEX 352
Indicators for monitoring and AMD 148 353 reporting: The Programme shall be closely
monitored in order to measure the extent to which the general objective and the specific objectives have been achieved, as well as to monitor its output, results and impact. To that end, a minimum framework of indicators is laid down to serve as a basis for a future detailed programme for monitoring the output, results and impact of the Programme, including an extended set of qualitative and quantitative indicators:
354 (a) number of participants in solidarity activities;
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AMD 149 355 (b) percentage of participants from (b) percentage of participants a fewer opportunities background; from a fewer opportunities and background;
AMD 150 356 (c) number of organisations (c) number of organisations holding a European Solidarity holding a European Solidarity
Corps Quality Label. Corps Quality Label;
AMD 151 357 (ca) number of participants in jobs (in-country and crossborder) broken down by country, age, gender, professional background and educational attainment;
AMD 152 358 (cb) number of participants in solidarity projects broken down by country, age, gender, professional background and educational attainment;
AMD 153 359 (cc) number of organisations whose quality label has been revoked;
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AMD 154 360 (cd) number of organisations holding a quality label broken down by country and funding received;
AMD 155 361 (ce) number of participating young people with fewer opportunities;
AMD 156 362 (cf) number of participants reporting positive learning outcomes;
AMD 157 363 (cg) percentage of participants whose learning outcomes have been recognised through a certificate such as Youthpass, or another type of formal recognition of their participation in the European
Solidarity Corps;
AMD 158 364 (ch) overall satisfaction rate of participants with regard to the quality of activities; and
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AMD 159 365 (ci) number of people supported directly or indirectly through solidarity activities.
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